Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original dishes as Snail Porridge & Nitrogen Scrambled Egg & Bacon Ice Cream at his internationally acclaimed restaurant The Fat Duck. In this book a single-volume edition of the bestselling Perfection books Heston focuses his creative talent on reinventing some of our most well-known (and most abused) dishes. He travels around the world in search of definitive versions of sixteen classic dishes: Roast Chicken & Roast Potatoes Pizza Hamburger Bangers & Mash Fish Pie Steak Spaghetti Bolognese Risotto Fish & Chips Chilli Con Carne Chicken Tikka Masala Peking duck Black Forest Gateau Treacle Tart & Ice Cream Trifle & Baked Alaska. Among the many adventures on his quest he travels to Delhi & makes an MRI scan of the marinated chicken in his Tikki Masala; he discovers the secret to the ultimate crispy duck in Peking & experiments at home by inflating a Gressingham on a footpump; he walks the Dickensian streets of Lambeth & learns how to capture the essence of a fish & chip shop in a perfume bottle & he explores the Willy Wonka-esque Tate& Lyle factory & tastes some seventy-year-old syrup that proves an inspiration for the flavour of his treacle tart. Total Perfection is an original inspiring & fascinating voyage around the culinary globe.