For more than two decades Brits have tuned in to enjoy the warm and winning personality of Rustie Lee. Now there's the opportunity to enjoy her culinary expertise live, as she rolls up her sleeves and gets cooking on the 30-date sampling tour at the UK's four major supermarkets

TV celebrity, Chef Rustie Lee, joins WorldFoods as the face of the Caribbean Cuisine Tour and the Caribbean Food and Drink Festival running from May to August 2010.

For more than two decades Brits have tuned in to enjoy the warm and winning personality of Rustie Lee. Now there's the opportunity to enjoy her culinary expertise live, as she rolls up her sleeves and gets cooking on the 30-date sampling tour at the UK's four major supermarkets; Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

The first-lady of Caribbean Cuisine, Rustie Lee, is renowned for her glittering appearances on 1980s breakfast show TV-am. Her warm, down-to-earth personality made her an immediate success with TV viewers and has won her a place in the nation's heart ever since. Rustie has many strings to her bow with stints as a presenter on popular ITV gameshow, Game for a Laugh, singer, actress and just this year she's appeared on ITV1's Loose Women, This Morning and The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Rustie's reputation is built on a solid background in Caribbean cooking and her enviable talent of being able to connect with her audience and share her culinary know-how with ease and flair. Before, Gordon, Jamie, Nigella or Ainsley, there was Rustie; setting the stage for the many modern celebrity chefs who now follow in her footsteps.

Chefs on Tour Ms Lee will join fellow UK Caribbean celebrity chefs Hassan Defour (Rhodes Across the Caribbean) and Gary Tomlin (Hell's Kitchen) on the tour. The A-Team of celebrity chefs will travel across the UK engaging audiences with exciting food demonstrations of classic and modern Caribbean home-style cooking. Visitors to the roadshows will get to experience new taste sensations whilst being shown exactly how to prepare the same dishes at home.

Book signings Rustie fans will be delighted at the opportunity to purchase a signed copy of her latest cook book "A Taste of the Caribbean" at the roadshows. Says Rustie: "Anyone visiting the roadshows will be in for a treat. I'm in my element when cooking live and interacting with the crowd. The Caribbean Cuisine Tour is the perfect event for everyone to come and sample the delights of the Caribbean." She continues: "I'm so passionate about this style of cooking and even after 30 years of preparing these wonderful dishes for wide and varied audiences, I still find inspiration in the kitchen using wonderfully fresh and exotic ingredients."

The Caribbean Cuisine Tours begins on Friday 28 May at Sainsbury's, Southend Lane, Sydenham, London. The tour continues around London and Birmingham, culminating with the Caribbean Food & Drink Festival on Saturday 21 August at the Business Design Centre, London. Both events are set to make this summer one to remember.

'Rustie Lee - A Taste of the Caribbean', her first recipe book since 1984, featuring 120 recipes for food and drink from across the Caribbean. The recipes include Caribbean favourites such as Rice and Peas, Ackee and Saltfish, Jerk Chicken and traditional Journey Cakes, as well as Rustie's own recipes for Caribbean Christmas Cake and the rum-based Rustie's Aphrodisiac Cocktail. They are complemented with colour photographs and an accompanying DVD, which shows Rustie cooking 12 of her favourite dishes, personally selected from her book.

The DVD was partly filmed in Jamaica, with Rustie returning to her home country for the first time in ten years.

Rustie said: "I had a lot of fun compiling the book and filming the DVD.

"I hope that people will enjoy the book, have a lot of fun trying the recipes and experiencing a taste of the Caribbean."