Det goda livet - julspecial

River Cottage

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall cooks and tastes his way through the abundant crops on offer in this definitive guide to locally produced seasonal food. Hugh will also challenge five Bristol families to turn an acre of derelict city land into a smallholding, a vegetarian into a butcher's apprentice, ...

Hugh picks his favourite vegetables and foraged foods from River Cottage and cooks what's in season right now. As it's the start of June, lettuce and spinach are brimming over in the kitchen garden and dandelion and burdock in the hedgerow cue lots of delicious recipes. Also, Hugh's Bristol exper...

The first potatoes and radishes are ripe to be pulled out of the earth and broad beans de-podded for the most luxurious beans on toast going. The Bristol experiment continues as vegan Jess picks up a batch of hens from a nearby battery egg farm. Having lived practically their whole lives in cramp...

In this final programme, the peas are ready to pod, the gooseberries are nearly at their pickable peak and Hugh harvests the wet garlic. Spring is poised to turn into summer and the `River Cottage' team hold a fair. They gather to make elderflower champagne and the night before the fair, the Bris...