In Search of Perfection II

I have of course been enjoying the rerun of The Fat Duck's Heston Blumenthal's series on BBC 2 - and it looks like it's a precursor to a new series later this year. According to Amazon the provisional list of dishes to be explored is: Trifle, Baked Alaska, Fish Pie, Hamburger, Peking Duck, Chicken Tikka Masala, Risotto, and Chilli Con Carne (for this one he just needs to come visit me, since I make *the best* CCC).

Does anyone at home really recreate the dishes in full as per Heston's instructions? Maybe not. But each show contains a few nuggets that can be transposed to the kitchens of mere mortals.