Culinary explorer and chef Valentine Warner is set to combine cooking and natural history to take us on a journey through the best seasonal autumn food.

Later this year, chef Valentine Warner will provide viewers with the definitive guide to seasonal cooking and eating in What To Eat Now – Autumn, a distinctive new series that will be shot using natural history filming techniques to bring the ingredients to life.

At a time when supermarkets aisles offer virtually everything all year round, Valentine explains how the natural rhythms of the culinary world work. He sets out to cook whatever he hunts, fishes, and picks, but you don’t need to be a hunter to enjoy the meals he cooks – all the ingredients will be things you can get at the shops. Seeing them growing in their natural environment will explain why autumn is the perfect time to enjoy them.

Pat Llewellyn, Managing Director, Optomen TV, said: “It’s a refreshingly clear proposition: here’s the seasonal food that you should be eating now – this is how it grows and this is how to cook it.

“Valentine’s enthusiasm for seasonal cooking is infectious and once you understand exactly how and why foods appear at certain times it’ll be hard to resist the urge to get up off the sofa and cook for yourself.”