Your guide to tonight's TV.

Six celeb chefs — 12 questions. Lily Higgins, Trish Deseine (recent winner at the prestigious Gourmand Awards), Yotam Ottolenghi and others reveal their dream dinner party guests, memorable meals — and their favourite recipes to create the perfect summer menu to Joe McNamee.

“I have a bottomless pit of a stomach. I will try everything once,” says cook Donal Skehan.

Higgins is a food writer, photographer and chef with regular TV series, including Ireland’s Best Young Baker (RTÉ). Her new book, Dream Deli (Gill & MacMillan), is out now. www.lillyhiggins.ie

Rosanne inherited a love of baking from her mother. After college, she worked in the fashion industry, in fashion retail management, until 2011, when she accepted redundancy. Meanwhile, her husband Jay was out at college three nights a week, leaving Rosanne alone and bored.

I was a pretty laid back child. The ambition only came later, when I left school and realised there was a big bad world out there.

Cookbooks have come a long way since the first one was published 3,500 years ago.

“Start with the best ingredients and the dishes will almost prepare themselves.”

WHIPPING the dome off a new, blacker-than-black Weber grill, Chef Derry Clarke says “everybody thinks a barbecue is just a barbecue. It’s not”.

Lisa Faulkner

I HAVE long been a fan of brevity of language; finding it visually painful to read unnecessary adjectives and believing it aurally offensive and downright rude when people pontificate using wordy language that most people can’t readily understand.

Helena Bonham Carter is to star in new BBC One drama film 'Toast'.

THE cooking world lined up to pay tribute to TV chef Keith Floyd after his death from a heart attack.

AN IRISH cheese company was presented with a top food award in England last night.

NIGEL SLATER’S books — Real Cooking, Real Fast Food, The 30-minute Cook and Real Fast Puddings — have all been refreshed and will be published by Penguin next week.

THE hippest ingredient right now, according to Britain’s best cookery writer Nigel Slater, is culinary nostalgia. His book Toast — the Story of a Boy’s Hunger is in its 11th edition and has been in the bestseller list for over a year.

JK Rowling’s fifth Harry Potter book has been shortlisted for the adult fiction prize at this year’s WHSmith Book Awards.