Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s back for a brand new series, and with autumn in full swing and winter on its way it’s time to stock the larder and enjoy everything these seasons have in store. Hugh lives in Devon – cider country – and is keen to make perry, as pear cider is known.

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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall faces takes on Britain’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, in an audacious attempt to change the company’s animal welfare policy from the inside by becoming a shareholder.

Following Hugh’s Chicken Out campaign, supermarkets nationwide sold out of free-range chicken. But Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco was still reluctant to talk to Hugh. This film reveals what happened next.

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River Cottage Autumn Collection puts the very best of 2008’s successful series on the plate, along with some new tummy-satisfying recipes. Hugh rustles up two brand-new autumn recipes and shows viewers how to make easy Mexican chorizo, with two great ways to cook it. He also prepares the ultimate autumn belly filler: a simple, hearty “five root soup”. And River Cottage Head Chef Tim takes up a new challenge and tries to convert Hugh into a cauliflower enthusiast with a range of new recipes.

Thursday 15 January 2009
8:00pm, Channel 4

Now, I don’t know about you but all the TV celeb chefs put me under pressure at Christmas. I feel I should produce fabulous food and I try, I really do, but it just doesn’t happen.

For instance, in the past I’ve tried making the weird and wonderful stuffing recipes that chefs like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson say are very quick and easy to make… well, they aren’t. Mine ended up tasting how I imagine the lining of a sandal would.

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The Great British Food Fight will kick off Channel 4’s winter season on Channel 4. The series will bring together four of the country’s most renowned chefs – Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay – for the Great British Food Fight, a season of programmes celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films.

The season is a follow-up to the Big Food Fight in January this year, which delivered some of Channel 4’s highest ratings for 2008 and put food production and animal welfare at the centre of public debate.

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