You may know that I am a fan of cooking shows! Heston Blumenthal's shows are probably one of my favourites because he tends to make crazy food like lick-able wall paper from his Willy Wonka feast, a huge ginger bread house and an edible garden complete with bugs that you can eat! When I watched the series of Heston's Feasts I was dying to eat quite a lot of what he made as I was intrigued as to what they tasted like... especially the bugs!
On Tuesday, I watched the first episode of Heston's Mission Impossible. In the first episode he was visiting Alder Hey Children's Hospital so that he could try and improve the food because it was mostly all packet food from frozen, which obviously not healthy for the children.
There was this man called Geoff, who was the head of catering at the hospital (I think), and he told Heston that 90% of the hospital's food was made from scratch. Heston has literally just been in the kitchen to try a sample of the food given to the children and it consisted of baked beans, potato waffles and pizza (I think the pizza was made though) and so I didn't really believe it! Heston said that he had just tried it and that all he saw was food from frozen so Geoff took him down to the kitchen. The chefs were preparing lots of things like stroganoff etc from scratch! It was so different from what Heston had just been shown but then one of the chefs revealed that the stroganoff and all the other decent stuff they made was for the staff!
I was a bit shocked as Geoff had made it out to sound that this food was for the children so I thought he was a bit of an idiot as he didn't really seem to care about the people who actually need good food!
Anyway, Heston changed the lunch menu into some nice freshly prepared sandwiches that the chefs came up with and they put them on a nice decorated trolley with balloons and stuff like that to make it more exciting for the Children. I thought that was a really lovely thing to do and they even took the chefs up to see the children's reactions. There was one chef in particular that really wasn't for the change but seeing this turned her round more in favour of Heston.
He then changed the dinner menu to a menu called 'I bet you can't eat it' or something along those lines so that it will give the children a challenge and make it more exciting for them to eat something different and out of the ordinary. The menu including things like snot shake, worm pizza, tomato eye balls, vomit soup etc and the large majority of the children really liked the change.
The people in charge decided to keep Heston's lunch menu and send out a questionnaire to all the children to decided what parts of the dinner menu to keep. I thought Heston did a really good job and I personally would mind a snot shake! They look quite nice.
This Tuesday coming up is the next episode where he tries to change cinema food in Cineworld so I shall definitely watch that.
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