RIVER COTTAGE: SPRING (2008)

JASON HOLMES

Television Food Natural History & Wildlife Local Interest (Bristol)

Cast

DAVID TAYLOR AUDREY HOGG EDMUND HOGG IAN JOYNER HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL JAKE BRIGHT TRAVIS SWAINGER BOB SWAINGER CLAIRE BRIGHT

Plot

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has got a spring in his step. The ambassador for local, seasonal produce cooks and tastes the abundant gifts Spring has to offer, and celebrates the seasonal best, be it from the wild, the garden or off the self with a collection of recipes to enthuse and salivate over. In this series Hugh champions a community project in Bristol where some novice home-growers start up a small-holding with vegetables and livestock. A new national campaign is launched to catch the non-native American Signal crayfish which is doing so much damage to our inland waterways. Another meat firmly on the menu is chicken as we follow the success of Hugh's "Chicken Out!" campaign. (During a spell away from the counter, Dave Taylor worked on this series. See if you can spot him hiding behind bushes...)