BBC Two’s Great British Menu is back later in the summer. This  year the chefs must plate up perfection, as they fight it out for the chance to cook at a glorious banquet marking 100 years of the Women’s Institute at London’s historic Drapers Hall. The big challenge is to produce 21st century dishes that honour the custodians of first-class home cooking, and pay tribute to the generations of women who have helped make Britain the great culinary nation it is today. Chefs has taken inspiration from their families, to turn home-cooked classics into modern masterpieces.

The Women’s Institute was formed in 1915 to revitalise rural communities and to encourage women to produce food for the nation during the First World War. Award-winning critic Matthew Fort says: “All good cooking begins in the home. That’s why the WI has been so important to food in this country. It has established and maintained the highest of standards for home cooking.

Along the way, there’ll be both soaring highs and crushing lows as the chefs do everything they can to get their dishes onto the final menu.

We would like to wish the three Northern Ireland chefs Chris McGowan,  Danni Barry and Ben Arnold who are members of Taste Of Ulster all the best in the competition later in the summer.