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Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 7:11 am Post subject:
Watched it last night - excellent. Hugh's new head chef (what happened to Gil?) looks a bit like our Rob But doesn't sound like him... A.

alison
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 7:25 am Post subject:
I got the impression the new chef was from the shop, as Gil was still there, having cooked the lungs dish.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 7:28 am Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

Hugh's new head chef (what happened to Gil?) looks a bit like our Rob

But doesn't sound like him...
A.

He was in the show, making the lung stew IIRC. I think Hugh has more than one restaurant and quite a few staff these days.

I'm not sure I watched the same programme as everyone else but I wasn't that impressed and it seemed a but badly done to me. One example was the asparagus, it was being planted too late as it shouldn't be shooting and the stuff they harvested seemed too far gone. Although I know Hugh's reason for trying to get his guest to eat liver, hearts and lungs if many meat eaters won't then it seemed a bit strange to get a veggie to eat it. Better than virtually anything else on TV but there's isn't much competition these days.

Jon

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 7:35 am Post subject:
As far as im aware, Gill is alive and well and is still head chef at the RC HQ, Tim who was helping Hugh pick the asparagus is the head chef at the RC shop and canteen in Axminster.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 8:19 am Post subject:
Ah. When I say "watched it" I mean the first 45 mins Ran short of time so I've still got the last bit to see... A.

James

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 1:27 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry but I found it all a little smug and patronising.

I cant put my finger on exactly what I dont like about it...after all, I agree with what he's doing, but I just find him excrutiatingly smarmy and annoying. And I just can't help thinking that there's a massive organisational infrastrucutre layed on by C4 that is played down hugely in the final cut.

I suppose I have the same love/hate relationship withHFW as I do with Jamie Oliver. I cant stand the man. If I met him, I'd probably whant to punch him, but he does make good food, and he has done a lot for the way the British eat. Which is good.

I'm afraid I didnt get much from last night's RC. There was too much repition of the chicken campaign, and I felt it jumped about without actaully delivering any substance. I finished watching it feeling a little bored, empty, and a bit annoyed (a similar feeling to one I get after reading The Observer colour supliment).

I ended up ranting about the rightious middle class

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lottie

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 1:32 pm Post subject:
I've always had a healthy dose of cynicism about HFW---but I take from the programmes what is useful.

James

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 1:39 pm Post subject:

lottie wrote:

I've always had a healthy dose of cynicism about HFW---but I take from the programmes what is useful.

yeh, thats what I try to do also (which was why I watched it, even though I knew it'd annoy me.). Not convinced I could take much from that program.

And I'm sorry, but are they trying to tell us that a few hours work with a fork will get rid of all those bramble roots?

Rob R

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 1:43 pm Post subject:

James wrote:

I'm afraid I didnt get much from last night's RC. There was too much repition of the chicken campaign, and I felt it jumped about without actaully delivering any substance.

I noticed that too. I think everything you really need (about the basics of smallholding/growing your own) is in the original River Cottage series. HFW has moved on to a different audience now & is tackling it in a different way, a lot of things have changed at River Cottage as an organisation, which is a lot of the reason why I rarely post over on the RC forum now.

lottie

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 1:52 pm Post subject:

James wrote:

lottie wrote:

I've always had a healthy dose of cynicism about HFW---but I take from the programmes what is useful.

We hacked/pangaed all our bramble overgrown paddock by hand with help of eldest son---sort of slash and burn then kept going over remains with a flail mower attatchment on the rotovator for a year to stop it growing back---rotovated enough of it for spuds now---but it isn't instant

Stacey

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 3:39 pm Post subject:

James wrote:

lottie wrote:

I've always had a healthy dose of cynicism about HFW---but I take from the programmes what is useful.

Me and my husband cleared vast be-brambled jungles with just a fork when we moved here.

tahir

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 3:44 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

Me and my husband cleared vast be-brambled jungles with just a fork when we moved here.

Not even a full set of cutlery

Stacey

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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 4:13 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Stacey wrote:

Me and my husband cleared vast be-brambled jungles with just a fork when we moved here.

Not even a full set of cutlery

You casting nasturtiums on my hinterlekshul capacities?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 4:22 pm Post subject:
Nah, he's slagging off your family silverwares. Most people agree that HFW's books are far better than his TV. Take it for what it is. After all, as TD said, what's the competition?

Quail By Mail

Joined: 11 Apr 2008
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Posted: Fri May 30, 08 4:30 pm Post subject:
Having watched it I'm still trying to get my head around the fat-ish girlie teenager who doesn't eat vegetables and runs away from HFW at the thought of nibbling anything green. There's just something gross about someone without veg in their diet (exluding chips as 'veg' of course). So I'll be interested to see if RC can put her on the right course.

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