The Bear is back, Beckham is at the AGA, there's a pastry chef with his top lifted...it's the hot summer for chefs!

He bends over a sizzling saucepan, wearing a tight-fitting T-shirt that shows off his tattooed arms. To protect his t-shirt (the ones that make your arms look so good aren't cheap) he's wearing an apron - dark denim, or maybe even leather, but definitely some sort of masculine fabric, a little blacksmith next to it . He rakes his hair aesthetically beaded with sweat and frowns in concentration as he adjusts the seasoning. Mmmmm, delicious. Does this make you hungry? Or does it make you… "thirsty", as the kids say?

The hot chef, lust-object de nowadays, is about to get even hotter. The second series of The Bear, already airing in the US and available in the UK from July 19, brings grumpy but inexplicably lovable chef "Carmy" Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, back to our screens just when summer is coming. peak. Oh, and if you've got a sweet tooth, you might be interested to hear about the new guest star - pastry chef Luca, played by 30-year-old British actor Will Poulter, who told Variety magazine that he was "literally begging to be on the show" to achieve "a dream of playing a chef on TV" and that he has "tremendous respect" for people in the food and service industry. To prepare for the role, Poulter spent time in the kitchens of London restaurants St John, Black Ax Mangal (now F.K.A.B.A.M.) and Trullo. He described one particular shift in the kitchen at Black Ax Mangal as "perhaps the most satisfying day at work I've ever had in my life". -spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-173mewl">

In Emily in Paris, the heroine Emily Cooper is an influencer, the trendiest of careers . So it stands to reason that her oldest love interest – and the one who's French, with the sexy accent and all, rather than cheeky British Alfie – is a chef. Gabriel is wearing starched chef's whites instead of a t-shirt, because he's French and they take that cooking stuff seriously there. The sleeves roll up a little more with each new season.

Not all great chefs are fictional, mind you. Rōze Traore, an alumnus of New York's Eleven Madison Park kitchen, has also modeled for Nike and Louis Vuitton. He recently opened his own restaurant in Ivory Coast, where his family has roots and where he spent his vacations as a child. A recent profile in W Magazine shows him at work in a stainless steel kitchen, wearing a monogrammed Dior polo shirt. Last month, much of the internet lost its mind for nearly two days when