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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall lives in the West Country, near the Dorset/Somerset border, which allows him to get references to things like "Peggy Darvill's rare-breed pig farm in Toller Whelme" into his cookbooks.

There is a theatrical quality to the former chef that emanates from the ground up: the kale in his garden looks like angry lettuce, the hens look like showgirls and there are Cinderella-sized pumpkins under the broad green leaves.

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As he stands in the soil and gazes out across two counties, you get a sense that he could make us all immortal, if only we'd follow his advice.

For the time being, Fearnley-Whittingstall is content to try to wean people off ready meals.

He has a new TV show in production in which each week he takes some hopeless metropolitan additive-junkie and exposes them to food in its rawest state. It's a crowded market, this, and a risky one, given that people are starting to grow tired of being lectured about diet and to ma