River Cottage

I’m coming back on the Eurostar, and it’s been a satisfying day (Monday 19 March).  Discard disaster has been averted as the French (Spanish, Portuguese and Belgian!) revolution Read More ›

Herbs are central to the River Cottage way of cooking. It’s high time that a volume on these lovely ingredients was added to our other handbooks, and I’m delighted that Nikki has been the Read More ›

I'm so shocked to hear the news of the fire in our barn at Park Farm, our River Cottage HQ. I'm filming a long way away right now and it's just impossible to imagine. Obviously it's a huge relief Read More ›

Hugh's Fish Fight tonight won Best Documentary at tonight's Grierson British Documentary Awards in London (November 1).The Grierson Awards commemorate the pioneering Scottish documentary Read More ›

WHEN THE LEAVES are still turning from green to yellow (which is usually the case at the beginning of October), then as long as the weather is fine you can continue to persuade yourself that it is Read More ›

This is a vegetable cookbook. Whether or not it’s a vegetarian cookbook depends perhaps on your point of view, and your food politics. It’s not written by a vegetarian, or with the Read More ›

Good barbecuing this forthcoming Bank Holiday will make good fish and meat unsurpassably delicious. The subtle seasoning of smouldering charcoal and the searing effect of hot iron bars produce an Read More ›

It’s been an incredible six months since the Fish Fight campaign first launched. Your support has exceeded all of my wildest expectations. 
 
Tonight (Monday 8th August), at 9pm Channel 4 Read More ›

July is almost always a month when my thoughts turn to fish: both eating it and catching it. Generally, the weather makes it seem both worthwhile and appealing to get out on a boat and start reeling Read More ›

Today the European Commission published its Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform proposal. You can read the full proposal here. I’m very happy to see that the proposal specifically includes Read More ›