Jean-Christophe Novelli is just about the suavest man in cookery, and very kindly invited us to his farmhouse workshop ahead of new series, Chef Academy.

The Michelin star winner, and recipient of 5AA Rosettes, is about to embark on one of his toughest culinary challenges - opening a test programme for a top-notch American institute which aims to train and transform everyday cooks into high-quality professionals.

Chef Academy can be seen on on Good Food each night from Monday August 16.

Carry on reading to watch our exclusive video interview.

Jamie Oliver fans will soon be able to get a daily fix of the TV chef.

That's right, Jamie has signed a new Channel 4 deal that will see him appear on TV every weekday.

The celebrity chef will front a 40-episode series, Jamie's Thirty Minute Meals, which will feature him stirring up easy-to-cook food each afternoon on Channel 4.

Bosses said it would "show that anyone can get a delicious feast on the table in less time than it takes for a takeaway pizza to arrive".

Here's an oppurtunity not to pass up on - a chance to try some of the best cocktails in the world at an event that's usually closed to the public.

On June 29, 13 of the country's top mixologists will be battling it out to earn the coveted title of the UK's best bartender and Kitchen Daily, our favourite food website, have some special tickets to give away.

The Delicious Miss Dahl has caused quite a stir thanks to presenter Sophie's flirty manner, but she's by no means the first telly chef to try to sex-up our TV dinners.

Check her out in action and then see our gallery of the sauciest small screen chefs around...

It doesn't seem five minutes since Jamie Oliver was last on Channel 4, travelling around the USA, showing us the best food America had to offer.

Now he's back with a new six-part series Jamie Does..., in which he heads to various exciting food locations around Europe and North Africa in search of the best, most authentic food he can find. There's truffle hunting the French Pyrenees to look forward to, as well as spear fishing off the coast of Athens in Greece.

In this first episode, however, Sainsbury's golden boy is in Marrakesh, Morocco, trawling the streets, markets and bazaars to find a traditional taste of the city.

Marco's Kitchen Burnout - labelled the "toughest celebrity cooking challenge yet" - starts this Friday.

A dozen celebrities will cook in a professional kitchen for diners, with Marco Pierre White watching over.

But as Marco says: "I'm really a bingo caller, I call the orders. I'm the ringmaster, I just crack the whip. I may help them a little bit but they have to pay for my time.

"They have to do everything themselves, including creating and designing their own menus." Expect some heated times.

There will be four weekly heats building up to two semi-finals and a final as Marco narrows the field in the hunt for Britain's top amateur celebrity chef.

One of the celebrities that has taken on this tough challenge is AOL's very own horoscope man Russell Grant, we caught up with him to find out more...

We spoke to the MasterChef winner recently, and here's what he had to say. You've got to carry on reading to find out whether it was Dhruv, Tim or Alex who won the series though - what if you hadn't seen it?

If you missed the final, watch it here. Then come back and read the interview!

He's better known for terrifying defences in the Premier League - or sitting on the bench while injured - but it seems Liverpool's Fernando Torres is a dab hand in the kitchen as well.

The Spain international has challenged fellow soccer stars to join him on a World Cup episode of telly's Come Dine With Me.

The Premiership star is keen to film the show before this summer's tournament in South Africa, and wants to get Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand and Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas involved in the Channel 4 cook-off because of their shared love of fine food.

Move over Nigella, there's a new saucepot in town.

Now there'll always be a place in our hearts for Ms Lawson (especially mine - I once met her and she touched my knee and everything), but that doesn't mean we can't look at other kitchen-based temptresses when they're on TV.

Not content with starring in traffic-stoppingly sexy billboard adverts, and then becoming a best-selling novelist, the granddaughter of brilliant author Roald Dahl is making her second dramatic career change and bringing saucy cooking to Tuesday nights on BBC Two.

Carry on reading to watch a clip of the first episode.

Gordon Ramsay is to lose his biggest trademark – swearing. The foul-mouthed chef has vowed to quit his famous bad language.

At 43, Gordon reckons he's now too old for the four-letter tirades, and he also wants to stop bullying bad chefs onscreen.

On both his F-Word show and Kitchen Nightmares Gordon is almost as famous for cussing as for cooking.