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|title=River Cottage Cookbook

|author=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

|date=October 2003

|isbn=0007164092

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My first virtual acquaintance with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall came when I stumbled across his slightly surreal Channel Four series, TV Dinners. It's a rare talent, to be able to laugh at eccentrics without ever being nasty, and Hugh is a master of the art. At once, I knew we'd get along. The next thing I knew, he was playing at smallholding in Dorset in Escape To River Cottage. Watching his slightly dotty, but always entertaining, mad professor antics, Hugh became my hero.