IF Valentine Warner wants to tell visitors "What to eat now" when he opens this year's Leigh Food Fair, he won't have to send them out into the fields, forests and rivers to forage for their supper - there will be a delicious selection all around them in Leigh's tithe barn-style village hall.

Forager, fisherman, cook and broadcaster, Valentine Warner started his television career on the BBC in autumn 2008 with What to Eat Now, a cookery programme based on his book of the same name.

For reasons that baffle Warner himself (and many other people) BBC bosses dubbed him "the Russell Brand of the kitchen" - ee is more likely to be pictured up to his thighs in fast-running water than sprawled on a chatshow sofa with an open ruffled shirt!

He is also affectionately referred to as "truffle head" because of his passion for truffles.

His recipes appeared regularly in the Radio Times, while the six week series was being broadcast on BBC2.

His second book, also a best-seller and tied in with a BBC2 series, was What to Eat Now - More Please!

Leigh Food Fair and Classic Car Show, at the village hall next Saturday, 16th July, offers a mouthwatering line-up of some of the area's finest food and drink producers, including Somerset Distillery, makers of Somerset Cider Brandy, Fudges, Olives Et Al, Dorset Blue (soup and Blue Vinny cheese), Leakers Bakery, Lavender Blue cakes, Pinks Organics, Bridport Gourmet Pies, Easy Bean, Peppers by Post, Lovington's Ice Cream, Longmeadow Organic Vegetables, Bridfish Smokery, Alweston Jam and Chutney Empire, Dressit dressings, and Oakleigh farm shop. The fair runs from 10am-4pm in the hall, with the classic cars lined up in the car park outside.

There will be live music and hot food as well as the stalls.

There is a small entrance charge, with proceeds going to the village hall and Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance.