Wednesday 6th July 2005:
The restaurant is always closed all day on Mondays, so yesterday was our first working day of the week.
Today, was spent in the preparation kitchen, mostly preparing ingredients for the pastry section, including ice-cream mixes, vanilla sticks and rose petals. I also helped a few of the other sections prepare certain ingredients.
When using the impressive oven up-stairs in Heston’s lab, I took a peek at his book shelf. Titles included several books on ice-creams, chocolate and academic texts about taste and perceptions of flavour. I also met Chris Young, an American, who is employed as the Fat Duck’s Food Research Manager.
After work, we strolled down the High Street to discover Bray’s second pub, The Crown at Bray. As you bend your head to enter through the front door, you almost travel in time. The main part of the pub is dark, but cosy, with plenty of traditional features, including oak tables, elaborately furnished chairs and beautiful dark stained beams. A walk outside through a small door beside the bar, takes you out in to a back yard with picnic benches and beyond this, opens up an entire field of beer gardens with further seating.
The restaurant is always closed all day on Mondays, so yesterday was our first working day of the week.
Today, was spent in the preparation kitchen, mostly preparing ingredients for the pastry section, including ice-cream mixes, vanilla sticks and rose petals. I also helped a few of the other sections prepare certain ingredients.
When using the impressive oven up-stairs in Heston’s lab, I took a peek at his book shelf. Titles included several books on ice-creams, chocolate and academic texts about taste and perceptions of flavour. I also met Chris Young, an American, who is employed as the Fat Duck’s Food Research Manager.
After work, we strolled down the High Street to discover Bray’s second pub, The Crown at Bray. As you bend your head to enter through the front door, you almost travel in time. The main part of the pub is dark, but cosy, with plenty of traditional features, including oak tables, elaborately furnished chairs and beautiful dark stained beams. A walk outside through a small door beside the bar, takes you out in to a back yard with picnic benches and beyond this, opens up an entire field of beer gardens with further seating.
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