- Hardcover: 255 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; New edition edition (12 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340828226
- ISBN-13: 978-0340828229
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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- #26 in Books > Food & Drink > Food Writers > Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Forshaw --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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'A tonic for jaded cooks and an utter delight for lovers of real English food' (Daily Telegraph )
'Some lip-smackingly delicious recipes . . . guaranteed to bring out the country girl
or boy in you' (Heat )
'Ripe and magnificent . . . a good and beautiful book' (Guardian ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
'Some lip-smackingly delicious recipes . . . guaranteed to bring out the country girl
or boy in you' (Heat )
'Ripe and magnificent . . . a good and beautiful book' (Guardian ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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66 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Personally, although I think Hugh FW is a fantastic advocate of self sufficiency, I wondered whether it was worth buying this... And that's hard for me to admit.
It's broken down into months and gives recipes utilising seasonal produce. Very good idea, I'd been searching for a book like this for ages. BUT the recipe's are not what i'd call "everyday". In fact the only one i've used since purchasing the book in May is deep fried elderflowers - and jolly yummy they were too! A random dip in the book: cock pheasant au vin (Jan), nettle risotto (Mch), radish leaf and mint soup (may), bacon with fresh pea puree (july).
Hugh still persuades us to grow our own or purchase local seasonally produced over imported organic, and I do everything I can. So if you want an "after a busy day in the office" menu planner, look elsewhere. It's very good for "interesting" ideas and reinforcing a grow-your-own mentality, but forget it if you have a picky family or are on a diet. Maybe I'm being unfair, I wouldn't want to put anyone off even if they just grew a lettuce in a window box.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Set out in a monthly format,with each month / section starting with an introduction from Hugh outlining what's seasonal at the time & offering some marvellous recipes .
There is a fantastically useful guide to seasonality at the start of the book , allowing you to see when your fruit & veg will be at its best & when fish & game are in season
My copy is very well thumbed, I go back to it on a very regular basis - the recipes , as ever where Hugh is concerned, are easy to follow & really tasty - the recipe for cock pheasant au vin in particular, is an out & out winner - delicious.You really should try the Blackcurrant double ripple ice cream as well - decadent or what ?
Treat yourself & get cooking with a seasonal bent.
There is a fantastically useful guide to seasonality at the start of the book , allowing you to see when your fruit & veg will be at its best & when fish & game are in season
My copy is very well thumbed, I go back to it on a very regular basis - the recipes , as ever where Hugh is concerned, are easy to follow & really tasty - the recipe for cock pheasant au vin in particular, is an out & out winner - delicious.You really should try the Blackcurrant double ripple ice cream as well - decadent or what ?
Treat yourself & get cooking with a seasonal bent.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This month, my imagination has been captured, bound and gagged by "The River Cottage Year"; a book I have had a great deal of trouble putting down.
As the title suggests, it walks you through 12 months with Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall, better known perhaps as the shaggy-haired master of all food, free and frugal.
Watched on Channel 4 by devoted following of downshifters, thrifty and experimental cooks, HFW has inspired the nation with his waste nothing style of cooking.
7" by 9 1/2", it gives you a full 1 1/4" of good quality paper, a fabulous smattering of images from his kitchen and a delightful collection of seasonal recipes.
With around 9 recipes for each month and a super preamble to each month preceding them, he writes with a style that makes you think he is an old friend sat at your kitchen table, chatting away, whilst enjoying a large bacon sandwich.
Relaxed, pleasing to the eye and easy to read, each recipe is almost a story and a thorough pleasure to follow, or just flick through with a nice cup of tea.
The pictures by Simon Wheeler leave you entertained and salivating. He seems to have captured Hugh, his kitchen, family, garden and usual surroundings like a professional fly-on-the-wall and even though there are not pictures to accompany every dish, somehow just it doesn't matter.
One of my favourite images is the one underneath the dust jacket, which invites you to open the book to full spread to enjoy something steamy and mouthwatering being pulled from the oven, by a white shirted Fearnley-Whittingstall.
What was that meal I am left wondering?
This is not a traditional style recipe book, it is two steps better in my opinion. It opens eyes to new possibilities and gives frugal food positive sex appeal!
By highlighting the importance of seasonality and where food really comes from, he is challenging the way people view the delights on their plates - to great and positive effect!
With recipes like "Lightly salted relatives of cod in beer batter" to "Flatbread stack with roasted peppers and borlotti beans" right down to good old "Mushroom soup" and "Blackberry, apple and almond cobbler", you cannot fail to find something that makes you want to rush out into your garden to see what you can throw in the pot.
The book and all the food splashes on my favourite pages, sits pretty in a handy place in my kitchen.
If you want to see food in a new light, put it on yours too!
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seasonal cooking
wonderfull book that guides you , learns you how to use seasonal products. Delicious recepies, month per month, tips about how to grow veg in your garden (that work! Read more
Published 4 months ago by françoise
Just OK
I really like some of HFW's other books and his ethos of cooking seasonally & using quality ingredients. Unfortunately, though, this isn't a book I use often. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Marand
grow, cook and eat well
Having persuaded a friend to grow her own, this was the perfect christmas gift. Its one of those presents I wish I'd bought for myself...
Published 17 months ago by coolgirl
uneven quality
I use this book to give me a general idea about what is in season... I never use the receipes as some are quite gross. Read more
Published 21 months ago by purplehair
Down to earth, tasty stuff, and a good read
Full of great recipes using seasonal foods, this book provides plenty of inspiration for ones own interpretation so I often refer to this book. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2010 by A. S. Gilbert
Great book about seasonal cookery
There is only one point where I've got to criticize Hugh FW - his recipe for goose. Believe me, you don't wont it half raw but really well done. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2008 by Sabine Zimmermann
Informative, easy reading and educational.
Buy this book with the intention of becoming more seasonally aware of our uk produce, or simply for inspiration in great seasonal recipies. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2007 by T. Dowrick
Food for thought
Another wonderful book from HFW.
Once more there are great recipes that you actually want to eat - and as quickly as possible! Read more
Once more there are great recipes that you actually want to eat - and as quickly as possible! Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2006 by A. Kira
Get in Touch with truly 'Seasonal Produce`
Voted 'a corker' by Jamie Oliver, this is a book which challenges that all-year round availability of fresh ingredients, with a primary aim of re-educating the reader to think... Read more
Published on 26 May 2006 by Mirage
Getting back in touch with the seasons
If you were to judge this simply on the recipes then this is much the same as many of hugh's other books, lots of recipes but a fair chunk of text given over to the lifestyle and,... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2005 by J. Brand
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