There will be many hours devoted to the subject of food and cookery on television this and every evening. We have just waved goodbye to this year's Great British Menu on BBC2.

By Julie Richards DO you cheat when cooking? You might be surprised that if you do, you're in illustrious company. Because the original domestic goddess, Delia Smith, isn't adverse to cutting corners and breaking the rules when she wants to have her cake - quickly - and eat it too.

By Sally Williams IT'S a dish garnished with a generous drizzle of jus, and flavoured with a heady portion of strong language. But it seems the recipe for modern cookery is not to Delia Smith's liking.

IT'S taken an Establishment Tory from the foodie belt of North Kensington to tackle the hypocrisy that surrounds the issue of food in Britain.

By JONATHAN PRYNN, PAUL WAUGH DELIA SMITH today hit out at organic food and defended mass- produced chicken and air-freighted food.