The Fat Duck

Sight has become the dominant sense.

'More than we realize sight is a key part of what makes food delicious.

Photography and Direction: Nick Knight Concept: Ed Griffiths and Alexia Somerville Chef: Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck

" In May 2004, a complement of mystery guests were invited to participate in this twenty-two-course meal, prepared by the gastronomic alchemist Heston Blumenthal and photographed by Nick Knight for a visually decadent W magazine shoot. "

Showstudio.

The mysteries behind this school of cooking should make this tome a mega-buy come March 2011.

"The reason I call this cuisine modernist is that in the 19th century you had these seeds of modernism that revolutionized art, architecture, literature and philosophy. It was a reaction to the industrializing of the modern world. But it just didn't happen with food. Le Coubusier who was out there calling a house a machine that you live in, sat down to the same coq au vin as everybody else. The Bauhaus guys who said 'Architecture, let's change that! Typography, let's change that! Typography, let's change that!' did nothing to change schnitzel. This is finally the modernist revolution of food, just one hundred years late"

Nathan Myhrvold