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Heston's Christmas Feast | TV review

From Media Guardian
Posted December 18 2009, 10.45pm

If Jamie Oliver is Our Lord Jesus Christ, then Heston Blumenthal is the Antichrist – he's certainly anti-Christmas dinner, writes Sam WollastonThere's been a glut already. Delia (quite cold, quite old); Jamie (a bit heavy on the rellies this year); the Hairy Bikers and Rick Stein (who really cares? They shouldn't have been given Christmas food shows, they're not at that level). And now Heston. But Heston's a bit different.If Jamie Oliver is our Lord Jesus Christ (and let's face it, he probably is), then Heston Blumenthal is the Antichrist.

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