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February 14, 2011
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Don't trifle with a chef and his rifle

Heston Blumenthal has been hitting the headlines recently.

His new restaurant, Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental, is inspiring rave reviews and the publicity machine is also gearing up for his new Channel 4 series Heston’s Mission Impossible.

However, among the usual waffle, The Observer had an extraordinary interview with the chef yesterday in which he talked of an incident, admittedly from many years ago, in which he pulled a shotgun on some men he was arguing with.

What’s next? Nigella: My Secret Life as a Cat Burglar? Hugh: The Bare Knuckle Boxing Years?