Reader's award

1 Rick Stein's Food Heroes
2 Beyond River Cottage, with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
3 Hell's Kitchen, with Gordon Ramsey

1 Rick has always been the sure, steady voice of TV cookery, a name we trust in a genre that seems to get more outlandish and desperate every year. But there is more than cooking to Rick's long list of television series. In recent years few have done as much to champion Britain's wealth of local food producers. Through Food Heroes and Food Heroes - Another Helping he has opened millions of viewers' eyes to the good food on their doorstep, be it local ingredients or the work of artisan cheese-makers, rare-breed farmers or fishermen. Whatever he is up to next, we only hope it happens soon.