Chef and culinary explorer Valentine Warner embarks on a mouth-watering journey through the very best of autumn food. It’s one of the most exciting parts of the culinary year, when food planted and conceived during the spring and summer is finally ready for harvest. It’s a season that allows Valentine to cook some of the dishes he loves most - dishes like rabbit and damson pie, mussel and lovage soup, home-smoked mackerel, fresh truffles and scrambled eggs, and roast duck with apples and quinces. Each episode follows the growth of the autumnal ingredients that Valentine then shows us how to cook. What To Eat Now also explores the life cycles of rabbits and snipe, mackerel and lobsters, pumpkins, carrots, apples and pears, explaining not just how they grow but also how their individual flavours and textures develop.
Thursdays from 11 March at 20:25 and 20:50