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The River Cottage Year by Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall
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.
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