Gordon Ramsay’s BAFTA-nominated food show opens its doors for another night of mouth-watering food, with every dish something you can cook at home, plus recipe-based challenges and fast food that won’t make you feel guilty. Among the paying guests in tonight’s programme is David Gest, who proves to be Gordon’s worst nightmare: a diva in the dining room.

Blur-bassist-turned-cheese-farmer Alex James takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge and tries to convince Gordon of the benefits of breast milk (and gets him to sample it). On the menu tonight are seared tuna niçoise salad with soft-boiled egg, roast chicken breast with a morel sauce and grilled asparagus, and spiced roast apples and pears with madeleines and vanilla ice cream. And as ever, if the diners don’t like it they don’t have to pay.

Tonight’s brigade of passionate amateur cooks are a foodie family from East London: three outspoken sisters and their brother-in-law, who all believe that blood is thicker than water; will they be as close after a night in Ramsay’s kitchen? This series, the stakes are higher than ever: the best performing brigade will return to cook once more with Gordon in the kitchen of his Mayfair restaurant, Claridges.

Plus Janet Street Porter investigates foie gras and challenges Gordon to remove it from his restaurant menus; Gordon turns deer stalker as he embarks on a wild deer shoot, but things don’t exactly go to plan; and the sheep are off to celeb pastures new. To find out how to dine at the restaurant, to apply to be in a brigade in Gordon’s kitchen or if you think you could be Gordon’s new female TV cook, go to www.channel4.com/fword.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, Channel 4, 9PM