Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Encyclopedia
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 14 January 1965) is a British celebrity chef
, television personality, journalist
, food writer and "real food" campaigner, known for his back-to-basics philosophy. He is best known for being the lead personality in the River Cottage series on UK's Channel 4, which focuses on his efforts to become a self-reliant downshifted smallholder in rural England and feed himself, family and friends with locally produced and sourced fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs and meat.
, Fearnley-Whittingstall was educated at Eton College
and St. Peter's College, Oxford, where he read philosophy and psychology.
After graduating from university, he began a career in conservation work in Africa. He then spent a brief period as a sous-chef at River Café
. Fearnley-Whittingstall says "being messy" and "lacking discipline" made him unsuited to working in the River Café kitchen. He regards it as an event that helped shape his current career.
He became a freelance journalist, published in Punch
, the Evening Standard
and The Sunday Times
. In 1994 Macmillan published his Cuisine Bon Marché, which contained recipes and guidance on a wide range of food commonly found in British markets.
He is married to Marie and has two sons, Oscar and Freddy, and a daughter Chloe. His wife has recently had another baby called Louisa. They live on 60 acres (242,811.6 m²) Park Farm near Uplyme
, close to the Dorset
-Devon
border. His mother is gardener and writer Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
. His father is Robert Fearnley-Whittingstall.
and eating the hedgerows [...] earned him his nickname of Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall". He followed this with the series TV Dinners, during an episode of which he notoriously flambéed and puréed a human placenta which was served as a pâté and "much enjoyed by the baby's family and friends".
In 1997 he moved into River Cottage
, a former game-keeper's lodge in the grounds of Slape Manor in Netherbury
, Dorset
, which he had previously used as a weekend and holiday home. This became the setting for three Channel 4
series: Escape to River Cottage
, Return to River Cottage
and River Cottage Forever
(directed by Garry John Hughes
). He has since bought a farm in Thorncombe
, Dorset, with his family. Through his experiences on these programmes, in which he had to produce everything himself in The Good Life style, he has become a keen supporter of the organic movement
. Beyond River Cottage
followed Fearnley-Whittingstall's progress as he set up a new business, River Cottage H.Q.
, close to Dottery (near Bridport
), Dorset. In 2002 he presented the six-episode series Treats from the Edwardian Country House. In 2005, a series called The View from River Cottage was produced using extracts from the four previous series, accompanied by newly-recorded narration. This was followed by The River Cottage Road Trip, consisting of two brand new one-hour shows. 2005 also saw Fearnley-Whittingstall appear on the first series of Channel 4's The F Word, advising Gordon Ramsay
on the rearing of turkeys at his London home. These were subsequently eaten in the last episode of the series. Further appearances on The F-Word in 2006 and 2007 involved Fearnley-Whittingstall advising Ramsay on the rearing of pigs and lambs respectively, again with their being eaten in the last episodes of the series.
During 2006 Fearnley-Whittingstall moved River Cottage H.Q. from the original rented and converted barn near Bridport, to its new premises, Park Farm, a 66 acres (267,092.8 m²) farm near to Uplyme
on the West Dorset/East Devon border. A new series called The River Cottage Treatment was filmed there and was broadcast on Channel 4 in November 2006.
In 2007, Fearnley-Whittingstall presented the short series River Cottage: Gone Fishing, which examined some of the lesser-known fish to be caught around the British Isles.
At the start of 2008, Fearnley-Whittingstall – along with fellow celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver
and Gordon Ramsay
– was featured in Channel 4's Big Food Fight season. His contribution to the season was Hugh's Chicken Run
, shown over three consecutive nights, in which he created three chicken farms in Axminster
(one intensive, one commercial free range, and a community farm project staffed by volunteers), culminating in a "Chicken Out!" campaign to encourage the eating of free-range chicken
.
Fearnley-Whittingstall also presented a magazine-style food programme produced at River Cottage HQ, River Cottage Spring, which ran from 28 May to 25 June 2008 on Channel 4, and was followed later that year by River Cottage Autumn, which ran from 16 October to 6 November. He was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 31 July 2009.
He was a permanent team captain (opposing a different guest captain each week) on a food-based panel game, The Big Food Fight (not to be confused with the earlier project of the same name) which began on Channel 4 on 8 September 2009.
On November 12, 2009 a new series of four River Cottage episodes started at 8pm on Channel 4, titled 'River Cottage - Winter's on the Way'.
In September 2010 a new series of River Cottage episodes titled ' River Cottage Everyday' began. The series is intended to encourage people to cook from scratch more frequently. It is accompanied by a book of the same name.
In Autumn 2011, a new series "River Cottage, Veg every day" began as Hugh developed awareness for how much meat is consumed daily and promoting interesting and delicious vegetarian meals.
As part of the campaign, Fearnley-Whittingstall singled out Tesco
as a major retailer of chickens which failed to conform to the standards laid down by the Farm Animal Welfare Council
in its "Five Freedoms" concept. As a result, he purchased a share in Tesco so that he could take advantage of a procedure set out in section 338 Companies Act 2006, which entitles any shareholder of a company to table a resolution at a general meeting of a company provided he can garner a certain level of support from other shareholders. Fearnley-Whittingstall managed to find sufficient shareholders to support the tabling of a resolution at Tesco's AGM on 27 June 2008, which, if passed, would have committed Tesco, within a reasonable timeframe, to take appropriate measures to ensure that chickens purchased for sale were produced in systems capable of providing the "Five Freedoms". An insufficient number of shareholders voted in favour of the resolution for it to be passed.
In an interview in January 2008, Fearnley-Whittingstall extended the call to hospitality and food service operators:
.
Another Fearnley-Whittingstall project was the conversion of an old inn in Axminster
to an organic produce shop and canteen which opened in September 2007.
In 2009, Hugh became a patron of ChildHope UK, an international child protection charity working in Africa, Asia and South America.
In 2009 The River Cottage Summer's Here programme promoted the Landshare project which seeks to bring together people who wish to grow fruit and vegetables but have no land with landowners willing to donate spare land for cultivation. The online project was commissioned by Channel 4
.
and The Observer
since 2001. A collection of his short articles was published in October 2006 under the title Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All: Dispatches from the Gastronomic Frontline. He also edited the The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions written by Kenji Kawakami
.
Celebrity chef
A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Historically, celebrity chefs have included Antoine Carême and Martino da Como.-External...
, television personality, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, food writer and "real food" campaigner, known for his back-to-basics philosophy. He is best known for being the lead personality in the River Cottage series on UK's Channel 4, which focuses on his efforts to become a self-reliant downshifted smallholder in rural England and feed himself, family and friends with locally produced and sourced fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs and meat.
Biography
Born in London and brought up in GloucestershireGloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, Fearnley-Whittingstall was educated at Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
and St. Peter's College, Oxford, where he read philosophy and psychology.
After graduating from university, he began a career in conservation work in Africa. He then spent a brief period as a sous-chef at River Café
The River Café (London)
The River Café is a restaurant in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England, specializing in Italian cuisine. It is owned and run by chef Ruth Rogers and until early 2010, Rose Gray....
. Fearnley-Whittingstall says "being messy" and "lacking discipline" made him unsuited to working in the River Café kitchen. He regards it as an event that helped shape his current career.
He became a freelance journalist, published in Punch
Punch (magazine)
Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...
, the Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
and The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times (UK)
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
. In 1994 Macmillan published his Cuisine Bon Marché, which contained recipes and guidance on a wide range of food commonly found in British markets.
He is married to Marie and has two sons, Oscar and Freddy, and a daughter Chloe. His wife has recently had another baby called Louisa. They live on 60 acres (242,811.6 m²) Park Farm near Uplyme
Uplyme
Uplyme is a village which lies in East Devon on the Devon-Dorset border and the River Lym, adjacent to the Dorset coastal town of Lyme Regis. It has a population of approximately 1700.-History and background:...
, close to the Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
-Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
border. His mother is gardener and writer Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jane M. Fearnley-Whittingstall was born in Kensington, London in 1939. She is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She has won two gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show. She has two children: Sophy and Hugh, the celebrity chef, and six grandchildren. From 2005 to...
. His father is Robert Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Television shows
On television, Fearnley-Whittingstall's reputation is that of an eccentric chef. Initial exposure came in Cook on the Wild Side, an exploration of earthy cuisine. His habit of "picking up roadkillRoadkill
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles. In the United States of America, removal and disposal of animals struck by motor vehicles is usually the responsibility of the state's state trooper association or department of transportation.-History:During the...
and eating the hedgerows [...] earned him his nickname of Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall". He followed this with the series TV Dinners, during an episode of which he notoriously flambéed and puréed a human placenta which was served as a pâté and "much enjoyed by the baby's family and friends".
In 1997 he moved into River Cottage
River Cottage
River Cottage is a former weekend and holiday home that was originally a game-keeper's lodge in the grounds of Slape Manor, Netherbury, Dorset. From 1998 it was used by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as a setting for three television series: Escape to River Cottage, Return to River Cottage and River...
, a former game-keeper's lodge in the grounds of Slape Manor in Netherbury
Netherbury
Netherbury is a village in west Dorset, England, with a population of 1,276 . It is situated one mile south of Beaminster and five miles north of Bridport, just off the A3066 road.Netherbury consists of a church, a village hall, and a play park....
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, which he had previously used as a weekend and holiday home. This became the setting for three Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
series: Escape to River Cottage
Escape to River Cottage
Escape to River Cottage was the first River Cottage television series in which celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes over a Dorset cottage and sets out to achieve a form of rural self-sufficiency.-Show summary:...
, Return to River Cottage
Return to River Cottage
Return to River Cottage is the second series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall during his second year of living in the country at River Cottage, Dorset after leaving the city behind-Show summary:...
and River Cottage Forever
River Cottage Forever
River Cottage Forever is the third in the hugely popular "River Cottage" Channel 4 series franchise, following on from Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage in which chef and journalist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall de-camped from the rat-race of city living to move to the rolling hills...
(directed by Garry John Hughes
Garry John Hughes
Garry John Hughes is an English TV director and producer. His documentaries include ‘The Ball Is Round’ , ‘Osmond Family Values' , ‘Seeking Pleasure – Holidays’ ‘Prince Eddy – The King We Never Had’ and ‘The Great British Black Invasion’ .Series Hughes has contributed to include 'The Travel...
). He has since bought a farm in Thorncombe
Thorncombe
Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the borders of Somerset and Devon, five miles south east of Chard. The civil parish has a population of 714 , and 8.4% of dwellings are second homes.-Geography:...
, Dorset, with his family. Through his experiences on these programmes, in which he had to produce everything himself in The Good Life style, he has become a keen supporter of the organic movement
Organic movement
The organic movement broadly refers to the organizations and individuals involved worldwide in the promotion of organic farming, which is a more sustainable mode of agriculture...
. Beyond River Cottage
Beyond River Cottage
Beyond River Cottage is the fourth series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he pursues the ideal of rural self-sufficiency as a farm-owner in Dorset.-Show summary:...
followed Fearnley-Whittingstall's progress as he set up a new business, River Cottage H.Q.
River Cottage H.Q.
River Cottage H.Q. is the base of operations for a cookery/food training centre from chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage series.-River Cottage H.Q.:...
, close to Dottery (near Bridport
Bridport
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England. Located near the coast at the western end of Chesil Beach at the confluence of the River Brit and its Asker and Simene tributaries, it originally thrived as a fishing port and rope-making centre...
), Dorset. In 2002 he presented the six-episode series Treats from the Edwardian Country House. In 2005, a series called The View from River Cottage was produced using extracts from the four previous series, accompanied by newly-recorded narration. This was followed by The River Cottage Road Trip, consisting of two brand new one-hour shows. 2005 also saw Fearnley-Whittingstall appear on the first series of Channel 4's The F Word, advising Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars....
on the rearing of turkeys at his London home. These were subsequently eaten in the last episode of the series. Further appearances on The F-Word in 2006 and 2007 involved Fearnley-Whittingstall advising Ramsay on the rearing of pigs and lambs respectively, again with their being eaten in the last episodes of the series.
During 2006 Fearnley-Whittingstall moved River Cottage H.Q. from the original rented and converted barn near Bridport, to its new premises, Park Farm, a 66 acres (267,092.8 m²) farm near to Uplyme
Uplyme
Uplyme is a village which lies in East Devon on the Devon-Dorset border and the River Lym, adjacent to the Dorset coastal town of Lyme Regis. It has a population of approximately 1700.-History and background:...
on the West Dorset/East Devon border. A new series called The River Cottage Treatment was filmed there and was broadcast on Channel 4 in November 2006.
In 2007, Fearnley-Whittingstall presented the short series River Cottage: Gone Fishing, which examined some of the lesser-known fish to be caught around the British Isles.
At the start of 2008, Fearnley-Whittingstall – along with fellow celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver
James "Jamie" Trevor Oliver, MBE , sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools...
and Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars....
– was featured in Channel 4's Big Food Fight season. His contribution to the season was Hugh's Chicken Run
Hugh's Chicken Run
Hugh's Chicken Run was a programme as part of Channel 4's 'Food Fight' series in which celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched the campaign to encourage more consumers to demand free range chicken...
, shown over three consecutive nights, in which he created three chicken farms in Axminster
Axminster
Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of Devon in England. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon local government district. It has a population of 5,626. The market is still...
(one intensive, one commercial free range, and a community farm project staffed by volunteers), culminating in a "Chicken Out!" campaign to encourage the eating of free-range chicken
Chicken
The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...
.
Fearnley-Whittingstall also presented a magazine-style food programme produced at River Cottage HQ, River Cottage Spring, which ran from 28 May to 25 June 2008 on Channel 4, and was followed later that year by River Cottage Autumn, which ran from 16 October to 6 November. He was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 31 July 2009.
He was a permanent team captain (opposing a different guest captain each week) on a food-based panel game, The Big Food Fight (not to be confused with the earlier project of the same name) which began on Channel 4 on 8 September 2009.
On November 12, 2009 a new series of four River Cottage episodes started at 8pm on Channel 4, titled 'River Cottage - Winter's on the Way'.
In September 2010 a new series of River Cottage episodes titled ' River Cottage Everyday' began. The series is intended to encourage people to cook from scratch more frequently. It is accompanied by a book of the same name.
In Autumn 2011, a new series "River Cottage, Veg every day" began as Hugh developed awareness for how much meat is consumed daily and promoting interesting and delicious vegetarian meals.
Fish Fight campaign
In October 2010 Fearnley-Whittingstall was filming a new Channel 4 series (called Hugh's Fish Fight) on sustainable fishing and where our fish comes from - he had been filming in the Maldives as well as other locations including the Shetland Islands. The series was in three parts, broadcast on subsequent nights on Channel 4 from Tuesday January 11, 2011. It was part of Channel 4's 'Big Fish fight' season. The campaign benefitted from the use of social networking sites Facebook and Twitter as well as its own website. Before the programme came to air, the campaign had received 13,000 signatures, the day after the final episode there were over 320,000 signatures.Chicken Out! campaign
Fearnley-Whittingstall has presented three one-hour shows detailing how commercial breeds of broiler chickens are reared for their meat in just 39 days. This compares to slow growing breeds which live for at least 75 days in more humane and natural surroundings. Fearnley-Whittingstall is currently trying to encourage people to become more aware of food production issues through his "Chicken Out" campaign.As part of the campaign, Fearnley-Whittingstall singled out Tesco
Tesco
Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...
as a major retailer of chickens which failed to conform to the standards laid down by the Farm Animal Welfare Council
Farm Animal Welfare Council
The Farm Animal Welfare Council was an independent advisory body established by the Government of Great Britain in 1979. FAWC has published its Final Report before its closure on 31 March 2011...
in its "Five Freedoms" concept. As a result, he purchased a share in Tesco so that he could take advantage of a procedure set out in section 338 Companies Act 2006, which entitles any shareholder of a company to table a resolution at a general meeting of a company provided he can garner a certain level of support from other shareholders. Fearnley-Whittingstall managed to find sufficient shareholders to support the tabling of a resolution at Tesco's AGM on 27 June 2008, which, if passed, would have committed Tesco, within a reasonable timeframe, to take appropriate measures to ensure that chickens purchased for sale were produced in systems capable of providing the "Five Freedoms". An insufficient number of shareholders voted in favour of the resolution for it to be passed.
In an interview in January 2008, Fearnley-Whittingstall extended the call to hospitality and food service operators:
“It’s one thing to challenge individual consumers to give up intensively reared chicken but it’s also an issue where anyone in the business of selling chicken has to take a stand... in some cases I know chefs, not naming names, at the very high-end sector who are not using free-range birds. Some of them are on the road to Michelin stars.”
Other projects
He has helped develop Stinger, a nettle-flavoured ale, with the Hall and Woodhouse breweryHall & Woodhouse
Hall and Woodhouse is a British regional brewery founded in 1777 by Charles Hall in Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK. The company operates over 250 public houses in the south of England, and brews under the name Badger Brewery.-History:...
.
Another Fearnley-Whittingstall project was the conversion of an old inn in Axminster
Axminster
Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of Devon in England. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth, and is in the East Devon local government district. It has a population of 5,626. The market is still...
to an organic produce shop and canteen which opened in September 2007.
In 2009, Hugh became a patron of ChildHope UK, an international child protection charity working in Africa, Asia and South America.
In 2009 The River Cottage Summer's Here programme promoted the Landshare project which seeks to bring together people who wish to grow fruit and vegetables but have no land with landowners willing to donate spare land for cultivation. The online project was commissioned by Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
.
Books
Fearnley-Whittingstall has also written the best-selling cook books The River Cottage Cookbook, The River Cottage Year and The River Cottage Meat Book (including award-winning photography by Simon Wheeler), which details his philosophy of organic husbandry whilst also covering many aspects of selecting, preparing and cooking meat, and The River Cottage Fish Book. His latest book, published on 5 October 2009, is River Cottage Every Day. He has written articles for The GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
since 2001. A collection of his short articles was published in October 2006 under the title Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All: Dispatches from the Gastronomic Frontline. He also edited the The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions written by Kenji Kawakami
Kenji Kawakami
is the inventor of the Japanese craze Chindōgu.Kenji Kawakami has founded the international Chindōgu society. The current president is Dan Papia. Chindōgu is the art of creating a product whose usefulness is precluded by its absurdity. Chindōgu is related to Rube Goldbergism. Chindōgu items must...
.
Published works
- TV Dinners: In Search of Exciting Home Cooking, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (1996)
- A Cook on the Wild Side, (A Channel Four book) by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (1997)
- The Best of TV Dinners, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (1999)
- The River Cottage Cookbook, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2001)
- The River Cottage Year, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2003)
- The River Cottage Meat Book, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004)
- Preserved, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Sandler, and Johnny Acton (2004)
- The Real Good Life: A Practical Guide to a Healthy, Organic Lifestyle, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Soil Association (2005)
- Soup Kitchen, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Thomasina MiersThomasina MiersThomasina "Tommi" Miers is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is married to Mark Williams.Born in Cheltenham, she studied at St Paul's Girls' School and Ballymaloe Cookery School and worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico.In 2005 she won...
, and Annabel Buckingham (2005) - The River Cottage Family Cookbook, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Fizz Carr (2005)
- Hugh Fearlessly Eats it All: Dispatches from the Gastronomic Front line, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2006)
- Little Book of Soup, by Thomasina Miers, Annabel Buckingham, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2006)
- The Taste of Britain, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Laura Mason, and Catherine Brown (2006)
- The River Cottage Diary 2008, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2007)
- The River Cottage Fish Book, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher (2007)
- River Cottage Diary 2010, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2009)
- River Cottage Every Day, by Fearnley-Whittingstall (2009)
- The River Cottage Bread Handbook, (US Version) by Daniel Stevens and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2010)
- The River Cottage Preserves Handbook, by Pam Corbin and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2010)