Blumenthal creates dessert to celebrate summer

Heston Blumenthal OBE says the strong start to Britain's strawberry season has inspired him to create a new dessert, B.S.T. – Blumenthal's Summer Time. 

B.S.T. features wild strawberries, strawberries macerated in long pepper sugar under vacuum, pickled green strawberries in elderflower, a strawberry, red wine, orange blossom and olive oil dressing, black olive and leather purée, crystallised pistachio 'soil' and a caramel tuille-topped pistachio scrambled egg. 

The new dish is available on the à la carte menu at his three-Michelin-star restaurant, The Fat Duck. 

Capturing British summertime nostalgia

Blumenthal says of his new creation: "This year's weather means the strawberry crop has been fantastic; bigger and sweeter than they have been for many years, which inspired me to develop a dish that not only explored the full potential of this fruit in a variety of forms, but also captured a sense of British summertime nostalgia, which for me is all about strawberries and Wimbledon tennis and other summer sports, especially cricket.

"As we go into the second week of Wimbledon, I'm very excited to add what me and my team have created to our new à la carte Fat Duck menu for summer."

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