Man of the Year awards 2004 GQ Personality of the year – GQ Glenfiddich Awards 2007 Chef's choice award – San Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurant Awards April 2007 Trophy Gourmand – Austria 2010 GQ Chef of the Year – GQ Man of the Year Awards 2010/2011 The Diners Club® Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 at The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017. Television and book awards Best Cookbook for "Family Food: A New Approach to Cooking" – Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2003 Best Children Cookbook for "Family Food: A New Approach to Cooking" – Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2004 Best Production "Heston Blumenthal – In Search of Perfection" BBC2 – GQ Glenfiddich Awards 2007* The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2014 – Historic Heston book, Heston and his ghost writer, Pascal Cariss won the prestigious award for on British Food. BAFTA nomination in the Features category for "Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection"- British Academy Television Awards 2008 The Features and Lifestyle Award for Heston's Victorian Feast – The Royal Television Society Awards 2009 Food Book of the Year for The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – Guild of Food Writers Awards 2009 Winner of Design and Production Award for The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – British Book Industry Awards 2009 Winner of Photography Award for The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – James Beard Foundation Awards 2009 Winner of Design Award for The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards 2009 BAFTA nomination in the Features category for "FEAST" – British Academy Television Awards 2010 Restaurant awards Heston's restaurants The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal have received many awards, including "Best Restaurant in the World". Personal life Blumenthal married his first wife Zanna in 1989, and had three children with her. From 2011 until 2015 he was in a relationship with Suzanne Pirret. Blumenthal said he considers himself Jewish. Bibliography Family Food: A New Approach to Cooking (2005) In Search of Perfection (2006) Further Adventures in Search of Perfection (2007) The Fat Duck Cookbook (2008) Total Perfection:In Search of Total Perfection (2009) Heston's Fantastical Feasts (2010) Heston Blumenthal At Home (2011) Historic Heston (2013) As well as writing books, Blumenthal has written columns for The Guardian, T2, The Times and GQ. Along with scientists on the faculty of Reading University, he has co-written an academic paper on the taste and flavour of tomatoes called "Differences in