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10/03/2009

Heston Blumenthal comes to the end of his gastronomic adventure through time with a final stop in the Roman era

Ancient Roman cuisine meant theatrical, devious and orgasmic food. The Romans had few boundaries and unusual appetites, eating everything from flamingos to parrot tongues and jellyfish.

In this episode, Heston creates a Roman feast for a group of celebrity diners including comedians Alexander Armstrong and Danny Wallace, actress Greta Scacchi, the Marquess of Bath, TV presenter Lisa Butcher and food critic Matthew Fort.

On the Roman menu

The feast includes pig nipple scratchings, calf's brain custard, and a slow-cooked hog filled with edible intestines made from chicken and a cocoa mixture. And for pudding, Heston rolls out the ultimate naughty Roman dessert: an unusual ejaculating cake featuring white chocolate mousse, space dust and dry ice.

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  1. where can i buy dry ice for halloween?
    Posted by johannatam on 25/10/2009 20:06:25
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  2. hello i was just wondering if there would be a book on hestons feasts x
    Posted by clare 26 on 17/05/2009 22:37:25
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  3. wow, the cake looks amazing! its my friends birthday soon, and I'm making her a cake, and i want to make it really special, so please can you send me the recipe for the ejaculating cake and star dust cookies? thanks allot. you should do an Egyptian feast...
    Posted by evil squid on 22/04/2009 18:00:01
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  4. Hi Becka, Thank you or your suggestions, I have checked out the timesonline site and I have also sourced a no-bake recipe that doesnt include peanut butter, why I didn't think of that I don't know! I will give them both a try. Thank you again xx
    Posted by MrsMeem13 on 08/04/2009 21:50:53
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  5. The thing with the space-dust biscuit seems to be that if you bake them, *they don't work*. The dust just melts. So you'll need to find "no-bake" or refrigerator-cookie recipes, and add the popping candy into them. Or something akin to a cheesecake base might work too. I also found this which looks quite nice: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/heston_blumenthal/article736732.ece Another Heston recipe! ;) To MrsMeem13 - You could make them tiny as a dessert for your wedding, decorate with a sprinkling of more popping candy, or some sherbet? Hope this helps guys! xxx
    Posted by Becka on 07/04/2009 08:55:11
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  6. Pleae, please, please.... In need the recipe for the Space Dust biscuits Heston created for his Roman Feast. I have tried adding it to a normal buscuit mix but it didnt work. I really want to make them for my guests at my wedding day..... pleaaaaaaasssseeeeeeee xx
    Posted by MrsMeem13 on 04/04/2009 14:35:38
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  7. Right people I tried making biscuits with space dust but the space dust melted in the oven. But eyes down for chris's chocolate cornflake suprise. Melt the chocolate Add Cornflakes Put in fridge for 5 mins to cool chocolate mix Add to the Mix (When cool) about 6-8 packets of space candy Put back in fridge to cool candy for a couple of mins Put mixture in cake cases then chill These work really well I took them to work and they went down a treat. Enjoy my friends
    Posted by Chris on 01/04/2009 00:56:07
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  8. I would like the recipe for the ejaculating cake too please! brilliant party food.
    Posted by Gina on 31/03/2009 09:39:19
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  9. Is Heston going to comment on the fish gutting episode?
    Posted by David on 30/03/2009 10:27:24
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  10. i need to know the resape for the cake please
    Posted by frankie on 29/03/2009 21:26:21
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  11. OMG what a brill program! Not sure I could have eaten the intestine looking sausages from the hog but I would love the recipe to the 'ejaculating cake'....What a wonderful creation :-)
    Posted by Ali on 29/03/2009 20:25:48
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  12. PLEASE lets have the spacedust biscuit recipe, it sounds great!
    Posted by bcam on 29/03/2009 20:24:12
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  13. it was the best food show ive seen couldnt wait for the next show every week, shame it had to finish. heston's a nutter but i love him
    Posted by ppgrules on 29/03/2009 20:03:41
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  14. What a fascinating series it was mind blowing. Roll on the next one!!
    Posted by LINDA WARREN on 29/03/2009 19:58:30
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  15. Hello, I'm not happy with the way the live fish was slit with a knife to extract some kind of liquid for a bizzare roman dish. This must be illegal and sends a bad message out to other who think they can kill animals in this barbaric way.
    Posted by maddy on 29/03/2009 17:29:44
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  16. I thought the show was fantastic and intresting. This show was really funny in parts. Sometimes it was very gruesome and vile but the recipes were intresting in a way. I really enjoyed the Victorian and Roman feast. You have changed cooking for ever and have changed the way i think about it. But i also enjoyed the other episodes. I think making the jelly move was fantastic aswell as the the Trojan Hog, and i do agree that Italian dude was a nutter. I have really enjoyed the show and cant wait for what you do next. P.S Recipe for the Space Dust shortbread please!!!
    Posted by Piers Robinson on 29/03/2009 14:38:48
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  17. I HAVE TO SAY THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST FAVIROTE FOOD SHOW ON TV IN A LONG TIM EHESTON IS SO FUNNY AND EVERYTHING HE DOES IS JUST GREAT ITS REALLY WORTH SITTING DOWN TO WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN HES JUST AS GOOD AS GORDAN RAMSEY X KEEP MORE EPISODES WITH HEASTON DOING HIS THING ON TV PLEASE
    Posted by tracy on 28/03/2009 17:20:53
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  18. This is the second time I have posted- I felt the Roman feast programme was too shallow looking only at the foods ate by the aristocracy! Romans didnt have just a few courses but many more. Having had a 13 course Roman Meal with the emperor Nero in Italy as part of the Forum Fulvi celebrations Heston should have stuck to the actual recipes rather than his interpretaion of it with up to date twists! Simple Breads or Honey cake would have been nice to see as well as the extravagant. It would have been good if he had consulted some Roman research groups who actually cook real Roman recipes!However I did find the programme entertaining but agree with another poster that he should have used members of the general public as well as food critics. This might have enabled more discussion or were the food critics scared of a bit of challenging from the general population
    Posted by Steve Eckersley on 28/03/2009 16:55:34
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  19. absolutly amazing chef the tudor feast was incredible heston is ahead of the race as the most adventurist and exciting chef on the market a joy to watch and learn from keep up the good work
    Posted by phillip scott on 28/03/2009 12:23:21
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  20. Absolutely amazing and incredibly inspiring. You have raised the bar to such an amazing level that we in this nation will never be the same again concerning food! Keep going, and I can't wait to see what you will be doing next! What an amazing gift and passion you have and more importantly you are useing it to the max! You have particulary encouraged and inspired me to continue to push back the boundaries concerning my personal passion and vocation! Yhank you so much and God bless you Jenny.
    Posted by Jenny Thompson on 26/03/2009 23:10:41
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  21. Having just watched the final programme of Heston's Feasts, I must confess to being utterly disgusted at the gutting of live fish just to make a programme. His programmes, although quite entertaining with the strange diversity of recipes I feel, has been let down by this part of the programme. In a society where animal welfare is so frequently talked about (especially by tv chefs'), I found this to be of extreme bad taste and probably not really required for the purpose of making a programme.
    Posted by John Downie on 26/03/2009 21:19:24
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  22. recipe for space dust shortbread. please!!!
    Posted by kevin on 26/03/2009 20:54:51
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  23. I would just like to say how fantastic i think the show is. To create the food Heston produces is genius. I want o see more!!!!!
    Posted by Loiri on 26/03/2009 20:17:19
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  24. I thought that all of these programmes were absolutely fantastic, so different and interesting....I hope he makes more!
    Posted by Jessica on 26/03/2009 10:41:28
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  25. GENIUS!! I loved every episode, watching them all at least twice! We may even try the spa-pig idea this summer!! More of the same please - and when do we get to hear the rest of the Little Chef Saga??
    Posted by TTW on 25/03/2009 21:49:24
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  26. I wish to complain bitterly about last night's Hestons Roman Feast programme. His lack of emotion or feelings for other creatures on our plant is appalling. His actual pleasure in slicing the belly of a live fish was abosulutely obscene. Did he not think that this poor animal had feelings, and the others he slaughtered in the process once more in the pursuit of so called "entertainment"!
    Posted by Sue Calladine on 25/03/2009 20:40:33
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  27. I really enjoyed the series, it was fantastic in all concepts of the word. The only problem I had was with the choice of guests. Why have celebrities?? They can enjoy Heston's food whenever they like and have the chance to taste strange and wonderful things with a lot more frequency than most people. I think this series, and many of Heston's similar series would benefit from having everyday people tasting his food- students, kids, the kind of people who would truly appreciate the experience and who would be a lot more interesting to watch. Fewer egos please!!
    Posted by Jodie on 25/03/2009 19:16:58
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  28. it was a very interesting series, i enjoyed watching it but i dont think it should have revealed what was going to be cooked for each course at the start, i would have liked it to be a supprise
    Posted by renkinjutsu on 25/03/2009 16:59:40
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  29. What a fantastic series - oh to have been at the Victorian feast. The man is a genius with an amazing imagination. Please commission another series!!
    Posted by Vanessa on 25/03/2009 16:19:50
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  30. pure genius! Heston is so entertainig and his recipes are superb! he is the best chef on TV for origianality! He leaves me speachless with the wonderment of his recipes and skill!
    Posted by zippy on 25/03/2009 12:44:51
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  31. Brilliant, more please. the man is a genuine proffesional with an imagination to go with it
    Posted by Colin M on 25/03/2009 12:23:38
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  32. Heston is just brilliant. I like to understand how the food works and chemistry behind it. I would love to see another series like this, I would definitely watch it.
    Posted by john on 25/03/2009 09:44:29
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  33. i thought the heston seris was fantastic!! really interesting. hurry and make a new seris.xx
    Posted by donz on 25/03/2009 09:03:52
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  34. all the shows were amazing some of it was really a crack up heston make more shows like this i garuantee me and my freinds will watch and laugh our heads off
    Posted by ray hammerfield on 25/03/2009 08:19:19
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  35. I agree with many here: superb television! Heston is a total original and The Fat Duck is rightly hailed as the best restaurant in the country. I wonder if any elements of his feast programmes will find their way onto the menu there? I also agree that members of the public, rather than celebrities, should be feasting on his delicious-looking and spectacularly theatrical dishes. Perhaps a raffle would be an idea - with the chance to eat his food being the prize!
    Posted by George Sik on 25/03/2009 02:11:47
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  36. aha! loved it, me and my mam have tuned in every week he's brilliant :P Keep it up! x
    Posted by Luce:D on 24/03/2009 23:02:49
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  37. Hi , It very interesting about the trojan hog - I come from Tunisia and Tunisians Do use Sheep and Cows intestines : they clean them and they do fill them with either Couscous or rice or barely "Melthouth" (simlar to couscous ) including livers and stomachs and small pieces of meats and fat which has already been boiled . Am just as curious which was first Roman to use it or Carthaginians ? You might be able to find that out ... Thanks
    Posted by Abdessattar on 24/03/2009 22:53:18
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  38. Absolutely superb - about time the food became the spectacle instead of a mouthful of abuse or an exorbitant expensive advert..... roll over gordon ramsey and jamie oliver..... heston superseeds ....
    Posted by Stu Camden on 24/03/2009 22:10:30
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  39. This was a truely awsome programme alot better than the normal run of the mill food programmes well done again channel4 for a great programme
    Posted by Joe Frazer on 24/03/2009 22:05:18
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  40. I absolutely loved all the programmes. It was really interesting and fascinating. Please make some more.
    Posted by ben on 24/03/2009 22:05:08
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  41. i'm at university in Sheffield, and as a student, food is a critical part of my life, which is why i decided to watch Heston's in the first place! I absolutely loved the series and i really hope that theirs another series!!!
    Posted by Nick on 24/03/2009 22:03:47
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  42. Truly amazing! An inspired and inspirational program which really showed off Heston's talent. Perhaps in future episodes HB can entertain the public though instead of 'celebrities'?
    Posted by The Saint on 24/03/2009 22:03:26
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