Hugh's remarkable recipes range from smoked eel with wild horseradish to bunny à al runny honey, from his famous “Up A Tree Pie”, to a pider crab and seaweed supper. He even manages to whip up a wild gooseberry ice cream.

Paving the way for the ever popular River Cottage this is the original series from one of Britain's bes loved cooks. For lovers of natural fare and fans of Hughs's imimitable country style. A Cook On the wild side is the lates must-have DVD - a delightful feast from start to finish.

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.

Huge Fearnley-Whittingstall begins an investigative culinary journey around the Brithish Isles to tackle this in River Cottage: Gone Fishing! Hoping to discover alternative, delicious and sustainable seafood that fishmongers should be selling

Armed with rod, line and an adventurous palate, and with plenty of help from local fish fanciers, Huge discovers a vast array of underrated seafood and some great ways of making it taste fantastic.

Hi throws himself into haggis-hunting in the Borders and char-fishing on Lake Coniston, tirelessly pursues the finest Cumbrian damsons and the orginal Yorkshire curd tart, as well as cooking up all sorts of delicious dishes with the

This DVD includes a wonderful array of tempting recipes to inspire and salivate over, from stuffed and roasted belly of pork to spicy lamb curries and plenty of puddings too! All the season's best are here, whether home grown or shop bought. Hugh also catches up with the Bristol smallholders he first met in

First up. He tackles the food phobias and laziness of a group of cheap supermarket chicken-lovers with some tought love showing them the horrors of factory poultry farms and teste how the cope with a week on a farm. He then faces self-confessed ready meal addicts and takes them fishing, bonding with animals and cooking home-made organic goodies. Finally, a team of takeaway

Will the groups discover their “inner cooks” and rise to the challenge? Or rebel against The River Cottage Treatment?

This DVD includes a wonderful array of tempting recipes to inspire and salivate over, from stuffed and roasted belly of pork to spicy lamb curries and plenty of puddings too! All the season's best are here, whether home grown or shop bought. Hugh also catches up with the Bristol smallholders he first met in

In this series Hugh learns a valuable lesson while foraging for wild mushrooms, takes to the water as he free dives for scallops in Weymouth and raids Devon's rocky coves for wild mussels. In true River Cottages style Huge puts on parties, raising the heat with a 200 person chilli and pumkin party,

hen he finds River Cottage nestling in the heart of the Dorset countryside he sets about turning his dream into reality. The first casualty to self-sufficiency is beautiful flower bed wihich makes way for terracing designed to maximise growing space for edible crops. Once the vegetables have been taken care of Hugh sets off in his 1965 Ford Corsair in search of livestock.

Hugh also finds time to show how a sumptuous meal or two can be prepared from the local produce be it sea fish, pigeons or a freshly caugh pike.. Channel 4 Records

Hugh plans to turn his smallholding into a real home farm and edge a little closer to the holy grail of self-sufficiency. He negotiates with his neighbour to secure the use of a four and a half acre field, just enough to support a cow called Marge and her calf, a steer for beef and some Dorset Down sheep.

There is also time for Hugh to explore some of the local traditions including taking part in the annual nettle eating competition and diving for scallops. Channel 4 Records

In his first year Hugh had just the cottage and the garden but he soon found he needed more land so. in his second year, he did a deal with a neighbour to

It is now the start of the third year and, as well as being a time for looking back with joyu and satisfaction at the events of the last two years, it is a time to ask the really big question: should Huge stay at River Cottage forever?. Channel 4 Records