Chef Award
Sponsored by MLC Foodservice
Heston Blumenthal
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He continues to cook at the top of the scale, is the UK's leading culinary innovator, and has managed to achieve what others [in his genre] have failed to do - to combine cutting-edge cooking with wholly satisfying flavours.
These may be the words of David Young, a member of this year's Chef Award judging panel, but they're also sentiments echoed by chefs throughout <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /?>