Heston Blumenthal
The benefit of being self-taught was that I thought everything and anything was possible. I didn’t know reasons why things couldn’t be done. But I wouldn’t recommend it to everybody. I think it’s really important to get a sound understanding of classical cooking, really important. You need to know how to bone a chicken, how to fillet a fish, or make a soufflé. If you don’t get training you need to discover it yourself [...]