A TASTY dessert dreamt up by gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh was served at a York hotel to launch a new charity recipe book.

Billy Foster, head chef at Ramada Jarvis Hotel, prepared Alan's delicious cheesecake which is contained in the British Polio Fellowship Yorkshire region's fund raising recipe book.Other famous contributors include Richard Whiteley, with Chicken a la Whiteley, Dickie Bird's version of Apple Shortcake, and the Archbishop of York's Yorkshire Munch.

Updated: 10:44 Saturday, January 18, 2003