Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall , (born January 14, 1965 in London ) is a British journalist , television chef and restaurateur . He is best known for his TV shows and cookbooks from River Cottage in Dorset .
life and career
Fearnley-Whittingstall is the son of British horticulturist and horticultural author Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall. After school he attended both Eton College and St. Peter College, Oxford , where he studied first theology , then philosophy and psychology . After graduating, he spent some time in Africa before returning to England at the age of 24, where he worked in the kitchen of the River Café in London. After being fired from his job, he cooked for journalist Quentin Crewe for a while before starting freelance writing for Punch magazine , the Evening Standard and the Sunday Times .
He caused a national sensation in 1998 with an episode of his TV show TV Dinners , in which he prepared the placenta of a friend and consumed it with guests.
In 1997 he moved to River Cottage in Dorset, which he had previously used as a weekend and holiday home. In the former ranger's house, the Channel 4 TV shows: Escape to River Cottage , Return to River Cottage and River Cottage Forever with Fearnley-Whittingstall in the lead role and a total of 20 episodes were produced.
Fearnley-Whittingstall is married with three birth children. In 2005 he adopted Chloe, the daughter of BBC journalist Kate Peyton, after her murder in Somalia .
Publications (selection)
- Cuisine Bon Marche. Macmillan , London 1994, ISBN 0-333-59032-5 .
- The River Cottage Cookbook. HarperCollins 2001, ISBN 0-00-737527-1 .
- Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All: Dispatches from the Gastronomic Frontline Bloomsbury Publishing 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-8925-9 .
- Vegetarian daily - the best recipes from the River Cottage. AT Verlag , Aarau 2013, ISBN 978-3-03800-725-8 (Original title: River Cottage Veg Every Day)
- Three good things on your plate: 180 ingeniously simple recipes from River Cottage. AT Verlag, Aarau 2014, ISBN 978-3-03800-792-0 (Original title: Three Good Things)
TV programs (selection)
- A Cook on the Wild Side Channel 4 , 1996
- TV Dinners Channel 4, 1998.
- Escape to River Cottage Channel 4, 1999.
- The View from River Cottage Channel 4, 2005.
- River Cottage Everyday Channel 4, 2010.
- River Cottage: Three Good Things Channel 4, 2012.
Web links
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Introducing Fearnley Whittingstalls on the River Cottage website
Individual evidence
- ↑ One, two, three - done! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 22nd August 2014.
- ^ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: Crying fowl The Independent January 12, 2008.
- ↑ You can take the man out of the country ... In: The Guardian . March 14, 2004.
- ↑ Channel 4 rapped for serving placenta. In: BBC . May 28, 1998.
- ^ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: I don't eat puppies. I've even spent the summer as a veggie The Telegraph October 15, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chef and television entertainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |