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Exclusive offer: Fish Book with a free online Catch and Cook Course (normally worth £20)!

The River Cottage Fish Book has just been awarded the prestigious André Simon Food Book of the Year award! 

The definitive guide to fish and fish cooking: The River Cottage Fish Book is the only book on fish that the adventurous fish lover will ever need.

"As ever, informative and beautifully illustrated" ... The Times

More than just a cookbook, this beautifully produced volume promotes a total understanding of British fish, from their natural habitats, to what best to serve them with, to how to respect their seasonality, in keeping with the River Cottage ethos.

Britain’s finest fish are presented by species, giving all the background information you should ever need, and linking directly to mouthwateringly good recipes.

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At River Cottage we’re fanatical about fish. We love to catch them, and we love to eat what we catch.

This DVD, which I’ve put together with my fishing buddy and boat partner Nick Fisher (of Screaming Reels fame), is a complete guide to the sea fish that we catch and cook throughout the year here off the stunning Jurassic Coast.

Join us as we head off on the high seas in search of the season’s best fish, from the first mackerel of spring through the black bream and bass of summer and autumn to the early winter squid.

Check out our ‘Fish Skills’ section, where you’ll learn everything you need to know about preparing your freshly caught fish from scratch. And then it’s back to River Cottage HQ for tips on home-smoking your catch, and a feast of favourite fishy recipes, from mackerel sashimi to sea bass baked in a salt crust.

So climb aboard for 70 minutes of brand new fishy footage, packed full of top tips on how to get the most out of your fishing and your fish.

Then sit back and enjoy our special feature, For the Love of Fish - half an hour of the very best fishy fun and frolics from past River Cottage series. Join me as I recall some of my favourite adventures, catching, cooking and eating some of the quirkier and tastier characters among Britains fabulous fish and shellfish.

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The hugely popular River Cottage Diary is back for 2008 with even more features, information and recipes. It ties in with the new Channel Four TV series about the Axminster project - setting up an alternative to a supermarket in the Devon town, selling only locally produced food - with photographs and behind-the-scenes extras. It will also feature regional food and food heroes from twelve distinct areas of the UK, making it topical, seasonal and regional.

Designed in a week-to-view format, the diary includes useful food dates, websites, planting tables, seasonality charts, weights and measures, as well as delicious local recipes on perforated pages. A5, spiral bound and printed on 100% recycled paper, this diary perfectly encapsulates the River Cottage philosophy.

RRP £10, but available through our online shop at the special offer price of £8 OR just £4.99 with any order (option to purchase diary for £4.99 will appear when you add a full price item to your shopping basket).

Our New Mushroom Magic DVD is now available. Hugh says, "Nothing gets us more excited at River Cottage HQ than wild mushrooms. But these glorious fruits of the field and wood are available to everyone so why not get out there and bag some for yourself?
This DVD, put together by River Cottage mushroom guru John Wright and myself, is a fantastic introduction to the delights of mushroom foraging.

In John's safe hands we take a tour through the tastiest wild mushrooms our countryside has to offer, from the humble Common Puffball to the majestic Cep.

John gives us his top tips on where and when to go, what to pick and what to avoid. Then it's back to the kitchen where Gill and I get to work turning our haul into a whole array of fantastic dishes.

Whether you're a seasoned mycophile or total novice, this DVD will open your eyes to the wealth of mushrooms just waiting to be picked. It will whet your appetite for the vast array of fungal flavours out there and inspire you to add a truly wild edge to your cooking!"

In this first of an exciting new series that focuses on specific aspects of rural living and eating, mushroom expert John Wright explains how to identify and collect (or avoid) the mushrooms and toadstools we are most likely to encounter in the UK with diagrams, detailed profiles and handy tips.

Starting with a brief introduction to mushroom biology and taxonomy, John explains the ins and outs of collecting, including relevant UK laws, conservation notes, practical tips and identification techniques, complete with diagrams and line drawings.

He also introduces the River Cottage Magic Seven Challenge, a great first test that will inspire everyone to put their wellies on. Then he describes and distinguishes more than sixty of the species we are most likely to come across during forays in Britain's forests and clearings: old friends the Chanterelle and Cep, as well as a whole colourful host of more unfamiliar names - edible species including the Velvet Shank, the Horn of Plenty, the Amethyst Deceiver, the Giant Puffball and the Chicken in the Woods, and poisonous types such as the Sickener, the Death Cap and the Destroying Angel.

The handbook is completed by more than thirty simple and delicious mushroom recipes from the River Cottage team. Small enough to fit in a waterproof pocket, with colour photographs throughout, a standout translucent jacket and an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, 'The River Cottage Mushroom Handbook' is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide destined to be an indispensable household reference.

Comments from a very happy Mushroom handbook customer: I must give you an immense and heartfelt thank you for the splendid handbook No. 1! It is an excellent piece of work and a credit to you all. John is evidently an expert in the field of mycology. It is written with great attention to detail and wit, and is surely a must for any forager! The recipes are mouth watering too. It has surpassed my wildest dreams, as a beginner in such forays, the "also look out for", "beware" and "PS" notes are most enlightening and entertaining. I cannot commend the book enough.

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New release in paperback

In this hugely enjoyable collection, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - the man who brought you placenta canapés and brains on toast - chomps his way through the edible, the delectable, and the plain indigestible

For almost two decades, 'Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall' has been writing about food in all its guises. To some, his concept of 'good eating' might seem a bit skewed - he'd always bypass a McBurger in favour of a squirrel sandwich, and make a detour for fresh road kill - but to others he is a shining and shaggy beacon of good sense in a food world gone mad.

Armed with a broad mind, a quick wit and a ready appetite, Hugh covers almost every area of global food culture. Whether singing the praises of offal; debunking Colonel Sanders and Dr Atkins; playing 'poisson roulette' with the deadly fugu fish in Tokyo; pondering the moral inconsistency of those who condemn fox hunting for its cruelty while happily tucking into factory-farmed chicken; fishing for marlin in Kenya, trout in Chile and barracuda in the Bahamas; analysing the tea-dunking qualities of some classic British biscuits; contemplating why if piglets are destined for the pot, why aren't puppies; or reminding us that a reindeer isn't just for Christmas, but tasty all year round, Hugh has an unerring ability to entertain and provoke.

Ordinarily the word 'lifestyle' is more likely to be applied to slender magazine articles puffing lofts full of Eames furniture rather than books about smallholdings in Dorset.

The River Cottage Cookbook, however, is a hefty 450 pages of pure, gumbooted rural lifestyle; and one could not wish it shorter.

Oh and it's David Cameron's choice for a desert island!

The River Cottage Year is Hugh's passionate plea to his readers to shop and cook in harmony with the seasons.

This title aims to help you find good meat, understand it better, cook it with more confidence, and eat it with much pleasure. It first covers the basics - everything you'll need to know about choosing the best raw materials, understanding the different cuts and the cooking techniques associated with each of them.

Winner of the 2004 Andre Simon Memorial Fund Book Awards.
Also short-listed for the Glendfiddich book award.

"The best new book of the year without a shadow of a doubt, a serious treatise, a meat cookery bible and a supremely appetising recipe collection. Fearnley-Whittingstall is our most important and eloquent food writer today." Philippa Davenport, Financial Times

"Thumpingly enormous, extremely good, and manages to be at once a recipe collection, a series of tutorials on the principles of cooking, a directory of organic suppliers, a philosophical essay, a timely report on the state of intensive farming and a forceful polemic" Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2004.

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"Fizz Carr and I share the view that there are no really good cookbooks for the whole family to use together. It is our immodest intention to write a classic of this genre."

"The River Cottage Family Cookbook aims to inspire all generations of the family to discover

(or rediscover) the fun of cooking and eating together. It also hopes to encourage children of

eight and over to cook their own food, and to set them on the road to taking a lifetimes pleasure

in real food."

A generous blend of recipes, projects, history and science, The River Cottage Family Cookbook will be enjoyed by everyone who appreciates good food, home cooking and communal eating.

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Order your copy of 'A Cook on the Wild Side' now.

This is a world exclusive as it is only available via rivercottage.net

Order now as this is a limited print run!

It includes:

• over 300 recipes and cooking ideas, including all of those featured in both series
• extensive field guides to over 100 of the most worthwhile edible wild plants, animals, fish, fruits, flowers and fungi
• over 70 colour photographs to aid identification
• alternative ingredients for "armchair foragers"
• a gorgeous picture of Hugh on p.162!

NB: We have kept the price as keen and competitive as possible. The £14.99 price tag is likely to come as a blow to those who have paid considerably more than that for a copy on e-bay or Amazon. But if you have paid in excess of £100 for an original edition, you can rest assured that we have changed the cover design for the new edition to ensure that your copy will always remain distinctive!

Order your copy of the 2 disc dvd for just £19.99 inc. VAT plus P&P