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Tommi

Five minutes with Thomasina Miers

Since winning BBC's MasterChef in 2005, Ms Miers has presented TV programmes, her Mexican cantinas, Wahaca, are hugely popular, and she's just released a new cookbook. What inspires her and where would she send every school kid if money were no object?

Designer cakemaker

Q&A with Fiona Cairns, cake designer

Fiona Cairns, whose new cookbook Bake & Decorate: Tea Time Luxury is out now, supplies cakes to Waitrose and Selfridges and has made cakes for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and Bono. How does she do it? Find out here.

Michelin man

Q&As with Derek Bulmer

Derek Bulmer may not be a person that comes to mind when thinking of world-renowned restaurant bible, The Michelin Guide, but he should be. As editor of the Great Britain and Ireland guide, he's a man who knows more than a thing or two about what makes a good restaurant great. Web editor, Debra Waters, interviews Derek incognito, of course.

Dr Eat

Quick Q&A with Ian Marber, Food Doctor

Throw away the low-cal recipes and rigid diet plans, Ian Marber's new book How Not to Get Fat is like Alan Carr's Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking for dieters: changing your ways is the only way to change your weight...

Irish fare

Star chef: Richard Corrigan

Who better to explore Ireland’s fantastic foodie heritage than Michelin-starred and TV star chef Richard Corrigan, who takes us on a culinary tour of Dublin...

The Ayurvedic way

Q&A with Anjum Anand

Web editor Debra Waters caught up with chef Anjum Anand and discovered that following an Ayurvedic eating plan means you'll not only never need to diet again, you'll feel – and look – better both inside and out.

Rick’s protégé

Q&A with Julian Lloyd, head chef at Rick Stein at Bannisters

Julian Lloyd began his love affair with seafood while growing up in Padstow. He started work experience with Rick Stein at 14, and has worked alongside him since. Julian is now executive chef at Rick Stein at Bannisters restaurant in Australia.

Q&As with Rick Stein

Blog Goddess

Blog goddess: Ching-he Huang

The TV star and author of 'Chinese Food Made Easy' gives the lowdown on yin and yang, store cupboard essentials, and the health benefits of Oriental cuisine.

Hong Kong

Q&As

Q&As with Rick Stein

The Cornish chef talks to delicious. online about his new book, Coast to Coast – influenced by his numerous travels – what cuisines we should eat to lose weight, what makes him a grumpy old man, and how he took on a Balinese delicacy made with pig's blood – and won.

Star Bites

Star Bites: Gwyneth Paltrow

If she wasn’t so busy winning Oscars, this food-mad A-lister says she’d love to be a chef.

Jamaican me hungry

Q&As with Levi Roots

The creator of Reggae Reggae sauce first came to our attention on BBC2 Dragon's Den. The cook, author, and musician talks to Debra Waters about fate, favourite recipes, and his philosophy on life.

El Pirata de Tapas

Food for thought: Omar Allibhoy, head chef at El Pirata de Tapas

Craig Butcher reviews El Pirata de Tapas and chats with head chef Omar Allibhoy – protégé of El Bulli’s Ferran Adria – to learn just how easy it is to make superb tapas at home.

Q&As

Q&As with Matt Tebutt

The chef, restaurant owner, and UKTV Food presenter describes the wonders of Welsh produce, ponders on people's fascination with cookery shows, and lets us in on a few secrets about Market Kitchen...

Cooks country by Matt Tebbutt

Vantastic

Q&As with Petra Barran, Choc Star

First there came a man with a van... Then there came a woman with a van that specialises in spreading chocolate love to the far reaches of the UK from a customised vehicle. Petra Barran has made it her mission to travel the UK (and soon the world) offering to open people's hearts with a chocolate pud if they'll open their doors to her.

Heston

Q&As with Heston Blumenthal

Heston headed a nationwide search for the kitchen gadget guru of the future in the Finish Diamond Standard Innovation Challenge this year. Here, the Michelin-star chef explains what innovation in the kitchen means to him.

Food for thought

Food for thought: chef Agnar Sverrisson, Texture, London

Top chef and co-owner of the Michelin-starred in-the-making Texture restaurant, Agnar explains why there's more to Icelandic food than puffin meat.

Agnar Sverrisson's Scallop Cauliflower Textures

5 minute interview

Giorgio Locatelli interview

The acclaimed chef owns celebrity haunt Locanda Locatelli and has featured on numerous TV programmes. Here's our 5 minute interview with him.

Food for thought

Food for thought: Mitch Tonks

An award-wining fishmonger, writer, chef, founder of the FishWorks restaurants and restaurateur of The Seahorse in Dartmouth, Mitch was an accountant. He opened a fishmongers in Bath in 1995, armed with little knowledge, and has gone from strength to strength – just look at him now!

How To make fish stew

5 minute interview

Bill Granger interview

It's hard not to love the Aussie chef for his warm, affable nature and his simple yet devastatingly tasty recipes. We caught up with him here...

Feed Me Now! by Bill Granger

Chocolate shops

Small producers with big ideas

Helen and Simon Pattinson are the man-and-wife team behind Montezuma's award-winning chocolate. Here, Helen explains how they went from desk jobs to chocolate shops without ever losing sight of what it means to be green.

Cakemaker to the stars

Q&As with Peggy Porschen

Since moving from her native Germany, Peggy has worked at London's Lanesborough Hotel and as a cake decorator for Konditor & Cook. Her beautiful creations attracted the attentions of A-list celebrities and she has made cakes for the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Madonna and Elton John.

Q&As

Q&As with Danny and Noel, proprietors of Inamo

Web editor Debra Waters discovers how two entrepreneurs went from being disgruntled diners to the proprietors of a new restaurant that injects high-tech fun into dining... without sacrificing taste.

Star Bites

Star Bites: Harry Hill

Comedian Harry Hill recently won a BAFTA for his ITV show TV Burp. But off screen his mind has been on foodie matters – like launching his own range of Fairtrade nuts.