Celebrity Chefs

If cooking is the new rock'n'roll, its most famous perpetrators are the new celebrity bad boys.

Posey, sulky, tempestuous and often cute, these knife-wielders in white can be a tremendous force for the good, like Jamie Oliver, who has turned dozens of unemployables into skilled cooks and forced Britain to confront the problems of a generation of poorly-fed schoolchildren, or the bad - those prima donnas who revel in assaulting their sous-chefs or evicting customers who dare to demand the salt cellar. Good or bad, the pursuits of these larger-than-life egos - among them Britain's Gordon Ramsay, France's Joel Robuchon and Guy Savoy, Spain's Ferran Adria and Emeril Lagasse of New Orleans among them, are invariably entertaining. Check in here regularly to see who's been up to what, where and with whom!