As usual, all the scoring's in secret and only at the end of the week is the winner revealed.īudding entrepreneur Mekala Hodgson starts off the Spanish week with a very un-Spanish menu - pie and mash to be precise - in celebration of her Essex roots. In a Come Dine with Me first, the culinary competition ventures abroad to the sunny Costa del Sol, where four amateur ex-pat chefs compete for the coveted £1000 prize. Will Zoe be able to get her guests to put their differences aside and stop looking at her grubby cutlery for long enough to give her a credible score? And don't even get her started on her high food-presentation standards. And things go from flirty to frosty when chip shop manager Martyn Bilby attempts to hold the hand of fellow guest Latvian ice queen Signe Jase.įusspot Tracey Hewer, who works in trading standards, is on edge as soon as she hears Tito the cat meowing upstairs. The boys seem more interested in finding out whether Zoe's a model or pole-dancer, rather than a good cook. With a tip-top menu prepared, Zoe soon learns she's got a lot more on her plate to deal with than just the food, as her guests are a right bunch. Howard Robert McGinnis Robert Silverberg Roger Zelazny Salvador Dali Samuel R.First to host is glamorous insurance worker Zoe Prince, who's cooking an Italian-themed menu, despite not being Italian and never having been to Italy.īut that might not be too much of a problem as the other guests don't seem to know their saltimbocca from their vermicelli. Dick Poul Anderson Rene Magritte Richard Corben Richard Powers Robert Crumb Robert E. Kaluta Moebius Nicole Claveloux Paul Lehr Philip K. Sprague de Camp Leo and Diane Dillon Leo Duranona Lin Carter Louis Zansky Michael Moorcock Michael Wm. Fox Gir Glimmer Graphics Harry Harrison Harry Lucey Harvey Kurtzman Hilda Terry Homer and Jethro Howard Pyle Isaac Asimov Jack Kirby Jack Prelutsky Jack Vance Jack Williamson Jan Strnad Jean Giraud Jeffrey 'Jeff' Catherine Jones Jeffrey Meyer Joe Kubert John Brunner John Buscema John Jakes Joseph Doolin Keith Laumer L. Simak Davis Meltzer death Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Rice Burroughs Edmund Cooper Fantagraphics Francis Bacon Frank Frazetta Gardner F.

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