The Eye

On Channel 4 in the United Kingdom there is a wonderful show called River Cottage.

It’s hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who started the project back in 1998.

I share a lot of his views. I truly believe in eating as much fresh, unadulterated food as possible. In his The River Cottage Meat Book Hugh shows how you can get the best out of any cut of meat. I like eating plenty of fresh vegetables, and as little processed food as I can – out with the excess salt, and, here in the US, the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup that sometimes seems like it in everything!

He cooked a shepherd’s pie just the same way that my own mother used to cook it, with leftover lamb, and the same way that I cook it – or more usually cottage pie, which is made from beef. it’s so much better than the store bought variety, or the ‘cheat’ one made out of canned ground beef (which has the usual canned ingredients of added chemicals and sugar).