Heston Blumenthal talks to the man who inspired him

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Heston Blumenthal was just 19 years old when the way he thought about food was changed for ever. Food writer Harold McGee had just published a book which challenged many of the accepted French classical cooking traditions.

At a time when people thought that science had very little to do with cooking, he set Blumenthal on what was to become his mission in life - using science to create his now famous culinary masterpieces.