http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article6273190.ece

Two years ago, Gordon Ramsay launched a national search for the next Fanny Cradock and found her in Ravinder Bhogal. “After I’d won, I bumped into a friend outside Claridge’s,” she giggles. “I told her I was Gordon’s new Fanny — you should have seen the look on her face.”

Bhogal has used her win to reinvent herself as a kind of antidomestic goddess. This month sees the launch of Cook in Boots, a collection of colourful, unashamedly girlie dishes, designed with a woman’s many moods in mind. “We’re emotional creatures. We need food that fits the way we feel as much as our lifestyle.”

As such, it is structured around not only the needs of the stomach, but those of the head and heart. The first chapter, for example, is called Bread, Potatoes, Pasta: Fall off the Carb-Free Wagon; others focus on hangover food, social grazing and hard-up food. One chapter is called Fork Me, Spoon Me: The Food of Love; another, focusing on chocolate, is called PMT.

“It’s a family trait that if there’s a problem, we throw food at it,” she says. Here, the girl with many appetites shares some of her recipes.