River Cottage Road Trip Plot
Join Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal in two one-hour specials, as he embarks on the River Cottage Road Trip. In a quest to find fresh culinary inspiration, Hugh decides to explore new territory, leaving his business behind and heading North to find some regional recipes to bring back home. His journey starts in Dumfriesshire, where he learns how to hunt for and make haggis. In Cumbria he shoots his first teal and barbeques it for lunch with a kebab of its heart and kidney. Then, in exchange for a lakeside tepee pitch in the Lake District, he agrees to cook a lakeside ingredient-based feast for the revellers of the Coniston Water Festival.
River Cottage River Cottage Road Trip aired on November 30th, 2005.
River Cottage Road Trip Episodes
1. Episode 1
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall heads off to Dumfriesshire and Cumbria in search of culinary inspiration and some regional recipes that he can take back home. Hugh throws himself into haggis-hunting in the Borders and char-fishing on Lake Coniston, tirelessly pursues the finest Cumbrian damsons, as well as cooking up all sorts of delicious dishes with the talented regional cooks he meets on his travels.
2. Episode 2
Hugh concludes his trip by heading to the Lake District and Yorkshire in search of the finest northern tea experience. On his return to Dorset, he stops off in Birmingham, where he looks for the definitive recipe for curried goat. Back at base, he rustles up a Caribbean-flavoured feast for local lifeboat men, including salted pollock, rum cake and a beach bar of tropical drinks.
