Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's latest,
River Cottage Every Day highlights the simply prepared meals he serves to his family. The premise behind the book is that cooking from scratch using fresh, local ingredients is a possibility for everyone, pretty much everyday. Enter here to win a copy.
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What do you do with tomatoes that are a tad past their BLT or caprese salad prime? Ketchupify them. Nick Kindelsperger of The Paupered Chef, and our regular Dinner Tonight contributor, followed a recipe by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. "It's almost good enough to eat with a spoon."...
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This week's grilling tips come from British chef, acclaimed food writer, television star, and humanitarian, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Beginning his career in the food industry working as a sous chef at the River Cafe in London, he quickly realized that his free spirit and lack of discipline made him ill-suited for the restaurant industry. Whittingstall then moved on to become a successful food writer, publishing pieces in the Sunday Times and The Observer. Whittingstall took his career and eccentricity to the next level with the popular television shows, Cook on the Wild Side and four other series based on the farm where he lived, River Cottage, in Dorset, England. Whittingstall became known for his relentless campaigning of holistic values and...
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This week's Cook the Book is another from the great River Cottage book series. The author, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, is a celebrity chef in Britain, known for such series as TV Dinners and, after he moved full-time to his country home, River Cottage, for several shows based around the sustainable-farming lifestyle he cultivates there. The River Cottage Cookbook brings elements of his previous books under one roof, and provides detailed guidance on everything from gardening to choosing and keeping livestock. In fact, it's organized into four parts—gardening, livestock, fish, and hedgerow—based on the provenance of the featured ingredients....
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