Matthew Fort | 10:22 UK time, Friday, 13 April 2012

It's back again. The new series of Great British Menu is faster, bigger, higher, better, more brilliant than ever before.
 
The contestants' brief has been to take their lead from our Olympic athletes, and to push the bounds of gastronomy to the limits and beyond. This may seem stretching the Olympic ideal a bit, to take in cooking, but if you think about it, cooking is all about performance, about beating your personal best, driving up standards.
 
And that applies to us at home just as much as it does to the Great British Menu chefs, not to mention BritainÆs Olympic heroes. Go on, be inspired, (More @)

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