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Season 15
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Summer Pleasures

November 6, 2011

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River Cottage - S15 - E4

Hugh's commitment to a summer without flesh takes a hit when he joins a fishing trip and has to pass up the fresh mackerel sushi. So he visits Sachiko in Birmingham, where a Japanese chef introduces him to the vegetarian ways of Buddhist monks, and cooking techniques entirely dedicated to wowing the palate out of any yearning for meat or fish. Back on track, Hugh plunges back into traditional English summertime and prepares a full cricket tea without a pork pie in sight.

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River Cottage: Season 15 - 8 Episode s

15x1 - Bring It On!
October 16, 2011
In this first episode, Hugh makes peace with the pigs, and says goodbye to bacon sandwiches, and instead heads into the River Cottage vegetable garden to see what green summer vegetables he can get his hands on to set him on his way. A classic summer garden soup is a sure fire winner.
15x2 - Grow Your Own
October 23, 2011
This second programme is all about the garden. Hugh and the garden team revel in the first sweet roots of summer - delicious whether snaffled down raw in the veg patch or cooked up into dishes like a glorious beetroot tarte tatin.
15x3 - Feast
October 30, 2011
Hugh prepares to cook a meat-free feast. But he faces a battle with the slugs who are tucking into his vegetable patch with vigour! Catering for a wedding party, Hugh has convinced the couple, Louise and Phil, to have a vegetable banquet. Hugh visits Jagdish Ghelani, owner of Indigo restaurant in Leicester, who regularly prepares south Indian speciality feasts for over 450 people. Back at River Cottage Hugh begins perfecting his curries with a fresh homemade aubergine and bean curry. He also knocks up some stuffed courgette flowers.
15x4 - Summer Pleasures
November 6, 2011
Hugh's commitment to a summer without flesh takes a hit when he joins a fishing trip and has to pass up the fresh mackerel sushi. So he visits Sachiko in Birmingham, where a Japanese chef introduces him to the vegetarian ways of Buddhist monks, and cooking techniques entirely dedicated to wowing the palate out of any yearning for meat or fish. Back on track, Hugh plunges back into traditional English summertime and prepares a full cricket tea without a pork pie in sight.
15x5 - Power
November 13, 2011
Hugh immerses himself in the pleasures of wild swimming with vegetarian triathlete Colin. Meanwhile, Tim and James go head to head in the kitchen with a summer veg showdown. Colin Hill has swum the English Channel, the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, and he puts pay to any suspicion that a meat-free diet lacks power. But his pasta-heavy diet lacks imagination - pasta and ketchup, anyone? So Hugh whips up some delicious carb-loading dishes that provide plenty of flavour as well as energy.
15x6 - Cost
November 28, 2011
Hugh is well into his summer without meat. But even though he's turned veggie, life goes on - and it's time to take two of the River Cottage sheep to slaughter. But Hugh now reckons when it comes to cheap delicious seasonal food, vegetables can't be beaten. To prove his point he accepts a challenge thrown down by the landlady at a local pub to try and wow customers with his veggie treats, including golden squashes and pea and mint ice cream.
15x7 - Finale
November 27, 2011
Hugh has spent the summer dedicating his time and attention to vegetables. In this final episode his experiment of not eating meat ends, and it's fish he first turns back to. Still keen to share the vegetable love, Hugh invites a group of local children who hate veg to join him in the garden, and attempts to win them over with pizzas and garlic butter. And James at the River Cottage restaurant cooks a mouth-watering pumpkin and blue cheese pastie.
15x8 - Veg Heroes
April 12, 2012
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall looks back at his summer of vegetarian living through the eyes of the people who helped turn him from a committed carnivore into a veg muncher and cruncher.

River Cottage: All seasons

S1: Escape to River Cottage
7 Episode s
S2: Return to River Cottage
7 Episode s
S3: River Cottage Forever
9 Episode s
S4: Tales from River Cottage
10 Episode s
S5: Beyond River Cottage
10 Episode s
S6: The View from River Cottage
6 Episode s
S7: River Cottage Road Trip
2 Episode s
S8: The River Cottage Treatment
3 Episode s
S9: River Cottage: Gone Fishing
3 Episode s
S10: River Cottage: Spring
4 Episode s
S11: River Cottage: Autumn
5 Episode s
S12: River Cottage: Summer's Here
4 Episode s
S13: River Cottage: Winter's on the Way
5 Episode s
S14: River Cottage: Every Day
9 Episode s
S15: River Cottage: Veg Every Day
8 Episode s
S16: River Cottage: Three Go Mad
3 Episode s

15x1 - Bring It On!

15x2 - Grow Your Own

15x3 - Feast

15x4 - Summer Pleasures

15x5 - Power

15x6 - Cost

15x7 - Finale

15x8 - Veg Heroes

S1: Escape to River Cottage

S2: Return to River Cottage

S3: River Cottage Forever

S4: Tales from River Cottage

S5: Beyond River Cottage

S6: The View from River Cottage

S7: River Cottage Road Trip

S8: The River Cottage Treatment

S9: River Cottage: Gone Fishing

S10: River Cottage: Spring

S11: River Cottage: Autumn

S12: River Cottage: Summer's Here

S13: River Cottage: Winter's on the Way

S14: River Cottage: Every Day

S15: River Cottage: Veg Every Day

S16: River Cottage: Three Go Mad