TV’s celebrity chefs have been very busy this year bringing out lots of books, but which of them might find their way into your Christmas stocking this year?

Well, we’ve had a look at various book retailer websites and found that most have a different top ten, but Jamie Oliver’s new book is at the top of the list for the majority of them.

So let’s take a look at our choice of the top ten of celeb chef cookbooks. Follow the links for more information.

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The Great British Food Fight will kick off Channel 4’s winter season on Channel 4. The series will bring together four of the country’s most renowned chefs – Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay – for the Great British Food Fight, a season of programmes celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films.

The season is a follow-up to the Big Food Fight in January this year, which delivered some of Channel 4’s highest ratings for 2008 and put food production and animal welfare at the centre of public debate.

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Celebrity Chef, Jamie Oliver is on the warpath again and this time he has turned his focus to fast food outlets.

Jamie has revealed that he would like to see local councils putting a limit on the amount of fast food restaurants allowed in each UK town and region.

The Mirror reports that Jamie told MP’s yesterday:

“In California there’s a new law being passed to cap numbers of fast food outlets. I totally agree with that.

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Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, has signed a £2 million deal with Channel 4 guaranteeing his exclusivity with the channel for the next two years.

Jamie has followed in the footsteps of fellow chef, Gordon Ramsay.

A source told The Sun: “Jamie and Channel 4 are a great fit — he inspires everyone. He’s always coming up with creative and vital ideas and we already know what we want to do next year.

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As his time in Rotherham draws to a close, Jamie needs to make sure his campaign will work without him; he wants his new recruits to hold Pass It On street parties, culminating in a jamboree for the whole town, and get the local council to pledge their support. And he wants to get the whole country cooking and persuade councils up and down the country to set up their own Ministry of Food HQs. Most of his new recruits want to get cracking on the street parties, but Julie is convinced it won’t work. Meanwhile Jamie dispatches star pupil Natasha as an ambassador for his campaign.

Tuesday 21 October 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4

With takeaway-mad Britain facing a heath crisis, and inspired by the wartime Ministry of Food, Jamie Oliver is trying to get a whole town cooking fresh food. Jamie’s in the Yorkshire town of Rotherham, home to Julie Critchlow, the fiercest critic of his school dinners campaign, to see if he can create a blueprint to revolutionise how the country eats.

He’s persuaded Julie to join him and taught a group of non-cooks – including young mum Natasha, whose kids lived on takeaways, and miner Mick, who’d never cooked in his life – ten simple meals to pass on to their friends, who should pass them on in turn.

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Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, has revealed that he refuses to kiss ‘minging fans’ at publicity events for fear of catching herpes.

Oliver told Absolute Radio that he instructed his security guard to stop women from kissing him at a recent book signing engagement.

He revealed: “I said ‘Look, you know, I’m very loyal to my wife and if I have to keep kissing these birds, right, it’s only a numbers game before I get herpes. And once you’ve got it… it never goes. And I’ll be growing flapjack on me lip’.”

Jamie Oliver has hit out at people who claimed that his new Channel 4 TV Show, Ministry Of Food, made fools of the people of Rotherham.

Councillor John Gilding, leader of the town’s Conservative group, said, “I was disappointed by the portrayal of our town.

“It gave the impression that everyone was down at heel and it made us look like dumbos.”

Local sandwich shop owner, Neil Beaumont said, “It made us all look like numpties.’’

And local chef, Alan Dale, added, “My message to Jamie is: ‘Stay away from Rotherham!’

Jamie defended the show to the BBC saying : “Some people in Rotherham think we’re there making it look bad but if anything I came away thinking, ‘What a great bunch of people’.” Read more & comment »

Inspired by the wartime Ministry of Food, Jamie Oliver wants to get a whole town cooking fresh food and change the way the country eats.

Jamie’s in Rotherham, where mums defied his school dinners campaign, to see if he can inspire a revolution. But they’re struggling and Jamie’s experiment is in trouble, so he takes his campaign to a Rotherham United match to persuade fans to join his cooking revolution. “Was it worth having to blag one of my Bank Holiday weekends off my wife to get called a fat bastard in front of 7,000 people?” asks Jamie. “That’s debatable, but it’s all for the cause.” Read more & comment »

According to reports out today, Jamie Oliver has been warned to stay away from Rotherham. The locals have allegedly said that he’s made them out to be “numpties” in his show, Jamie’s Ministry Of Food.

In the show, Jamie opened a shop in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in order to teach families in one of Britain’s ‘takeaway capitals’ how to prepare healthy food for themselves. Read more & comment »

Many of you have been asking where to find the recipes featured on channel 4’s new TV show, Jamies Ministry Of Food.

Well have no fear! The cheeky chappy has written a fabulous book, containing all the recipes from the show and more.

Order Your Copy Here!

Cheap at only £10. I recommend a speedy purchase as this book has received a LOT of interest and is sure to fly off the shelves!

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Inspired by the wartime Ministry of Food that helped people make the most of their rations, Jamie Oliver wants to start a food revolution. He’s travelling to Rotherham – where Julie Critchlow was a “Burger Mum” after defying his school dinners campaign, passing takeaways through playground railings – to see if he can inspire an entire town to get cooking. Jamie quickly discovers that Julie is actually a pretty nifty cook herself, so he recruits her to help him. But Julie is not convinced – and nor are a number of other people he encounters. Has he bitten off more than he can chew? Read more & comment »

This week Jonathan Ross welcomes Jamie Oliver to his BBC One show, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

Talking about the nation’s health, Jamie says: “It’s going to be a horror show…the health system is crumbling, and when it’s gone we’ll be so sad because we’re breaking it.

“The last time our government did something radical about health was the Ministry of Food.”

On school dinners, he adds: “It’ll be nine years before we get a service across the board, we’re on track, we need more money for kitchens for every school…we’ve got a government that’s talking about it a lot, I want to know who’s running it so they can do a good job.” Read more & comment »

Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools are expecting their third baby.

The pair already have two children, aged 6 and 5 and Jools recently revealed that they were having trouble conceiving for a third time.

A friend of the family told The Mirror: “They realised something was up when they were on holiday recently. Read more & comment »

Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver has revealed that he hopes to inspire new cooks with his upcoming Nintendo DS lite game ‘What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver.’

“Gaming is something I’ve been interested in for a while,” Oliver told MCV.

“I love technology and the chance to combine that with something that inspires people to cook – I find that very exciting.

“The guys from Atari came to me with an idea and we played around with it and now it’s a really great piece of kit.”

He added: “I hope it will appeal to everyone from kids who are into food, young blokes who want to learn about cooking, women who are into cooking and gamers – everyone really.”

What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver will be released in October.