Countrywise Kitchen

The Countrywise Kitchen team head to the Lincolnshire Wolds. For many the landscape of Lincolnshire will mean the flatlands of the fens. But the county also has its hills known as the Wolds. Countrywise Kitchen visited this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, to discover what gives this cluster of hills a very special flavour all of their own.

The Countrywise Kitchen team head to Devon, where the mild winds of the south brings the first hints of summer to the UK. And at the very tip of the county lies an area known locally as the 'South Hams', taking in the coastal towns of Dartmouth and Salcombe.

Countrywise Kitchen continues as Paul Heiney and chef Mike Robinson seek out the tastiest summer foods from the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley - where South Wales and England meet. Close to the gateway of the Severn Bridge, the former medieval royal hunting ground of the Forest of Dean, and the valley carved out by the River Wye, come together to form an area of outstanding natural beauty. Where water and woodland meet, a feast of food can be found, as Countrywise Kitchen found out.

Hampshire is famous for its gin-clear chalk streams which dot the county. None of them is more famous than the River Test, which runs 39 miles from Andover in the north, running all the way down to Southampton. The river is revered amongst anglers as the birthplace of fly-fishing, and to this day remains one of the best trout fishing rivers in the UK. Countrywise Kitchen travelled to the valley carved out by the river to gat a taste of the Test.

Paul Heiney and Mike Robinson explore the culinary offerings of the Yorkshire Dales, where Paul samples pork pies in a region of England renowned for its butchers' prize-winning meat products, and Mike has a close encounter with honey bees.