Sometimes the wheel does indeed benefit from a bit of re-invention. And in this case, when I say wheel, I mean potato. Very much the same way that chef Joel Robuchon is credited with having birthed the definitive mashed potato recipe, Chef Heston Blumenthal has created the ultimate french fry recipe. It requires multiple cooking and cooling stages and yields a truly spectacular fried potato now copied by chefs the world over: On a trip across The Pond last year, I […]

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