Fearnley-Whittingstall went to Eton and Oxford.
When he was 11 or 12 he was making and selling fudge ice cream. A short time later in 1988 Fearnley-Whittingstall was cooking a human placenta on TV Dinners on Channel 4.
The Observer has an excellent profile of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
In 2008, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presented a three-part series on Channel Four, Hugh's Chicken Run as well as the series River Cottage: Gone Fishing, River Cottage Spring and River Cottage Autumn.
