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The River Cottage Year Book

For an ever-growing army of admirers, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall can do no wrong. The River Cottage Year seems sure to follow the commercial and critical success of his previous book, The River Cottage Cookbook, which was something of a publishing phenomenon, selling by the bucket-load and winning every major cookery book award. The format of this new book is intriguingly different: this time we are given (in chronological order) the author's insights and observations on life and food as the seasons and months go past, interweaving cookery with the cycles of the natural year. These sections aren't all the book has to offer: the new volume is crammed with 100 original seasonal recipes, all beautifully detailed. Of course, we may look at the results of these mouthwatering delights in the new Channel 4 series that accompanies this book and lament how we're not quite in the same cookery league. But Fearnley-Whittingstall has a gift not possessed by some of his rivals: we are always made to feel that the delights offered here are within our grasp, provided we follow the helpful advice we are given. The food is a mixture of the ambitious and the achievable, and looking through The River Cottage Year is a blissful experience, whether your intention is simply to dream about dishes or to actually get down to the nitty-gritty of making them. The illustrations are as tempting as anything in the text, and the book will unquestionably raise the author's profile still higher. --Barry ForshawRead More

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    THE RIVER COTTAGE YEAR ties in with Hugh's new 10-part Channel 4 series, due for broadcast starting May 2003.

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    The River Cottage Year is Hugh's passionate plea to his readers to shop and cook in harmony with the seasons. His argument is that locally produced British seasonal produce is by far the best foundation for pleasure and contentment in the kitchen both because of its unmatched quality and because of the sense of structure rhythm and rightness that seasonality will bring to your cooking. The 12 month-by-month chapters describe what Hugh is thinking about and what's happening on his Dorset small-holding at any given time of year as well as providing a comprehensive shopper's guide to what's in season when.The recipes in which fruit vegetables and fish generally predominate over meat have a fresh and unfussy feel and take us from outrageously simple spring dishes such as purple sprouting broccoli with anchovy and lemon butter (March) rhubarb and champagne cocktails (April) and new lettuces with soft-hard-boiled eggs and spring onions (May); through summer delights such as mackerel with melted onions (June) French beans with tapenade and chicken (July) and beetroot consomm (August); into mellow autumn concoctions such as cockles and mussels with bacon and chard (September) roast pumpkin soup (October) and Bramley burnt creams (November); and finally into soothing winter comfort food such as roast winter vegetables (December) tipsy fruity roly-poly (January) and steak and kidney pudding (February). The December chapter is a sensational set of recipes for the mother of all Christmas family feasts based around Hugh's beloved goose.

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    In this new book, the follow-up to his bestselling River Cottage Cookbook, Hugh writes about the year on his Dorset smallholding. He recalls, month by month, the highs and lows of past years, and anticipates the 12 months ahead -- what'll be in season when, and when'll be the best months to crack on with such tasks as chick rearing and sheep shearing, haymaking and hedge laying. But, for all its outdoorsy information, the real focus of THE RIVER COTTAGE YEAR is indoors -- at Hugh's kitchen table. With over 100 brand new recipes, this is above all a cookery book and for once a genuinely seasonal one, celebrating local seasonal produce at its very best - chestnuts in January, artichokes in March, rhubarb in April, asparagus in May, strawberries in June, blackcurrants in July, tomatoes in August, plums in September, apples in October, pumpkins in November and parsnips in December! Full of his hard-earned smallholder's wisdom, seasoned with his infectious good humour, THE RIVER COTTAGE YEAR is Hugh's rallying cry for us to reclaim the seasons.

  • BookDepository

    The River Cottage Year : Hardback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9780340828212 : 0340828218 : 12 May 2003 : THE RIVER COTTAGE YEAR ties in with Hugh's new 10-part Channel 4 series, due for broadcast starting May 2003.

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    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  • 0340828218
  • 9780340828212
  • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
  • 12 May 2003
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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