She said she 'put on half a stone' filming the outdoor cooking contest.

Take your seats for the last course of the cooking contest.

Then there was a collection of recipes from the pinto-bean cooking contest, with classics such as pinto-bean mock chicken legs and pinto-bean fudge.

For a cooking contest to succeed, sure, you need sweetness and wholesomeness, but it should barely conceal a seething cauldron of loneliness and despair.

He also spent time teaching fencing to young people and entering cooking contests.