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Rick Stein Recipes

RICK STEIN RECIPES

Rick Stein Recipes

Rick Stein’s passion for using good-quality local produce and his talent for creating delicious flavour combinations in his books and restaurants have won him a host of awards, accolades and fans. As well as presenting a number of television series, he has published many best-selling cookery books, including French Odyssey, Coast to Coast, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein’s Spain and Rick Stein’s India.

Rick has always believed in showcasing local seafood and farm produce in his four restaurants in Padstow, Cornwall, where he also has a seafood cookery school, food shops and a pub in the nearby village of St Merryn. In 2003 Rick was awarded an OBE for services to West Country tourism. He divides his time between Padstow and Australia, where he also has a seafood restaurant by the sea in Mollymook, NSW.

Rick Stein Recipes from Rick Stein's India
Chefs, home cooks and street vendors hold the key to unlocking the secrets of these complex and diverse flavours – and Rick’s travels take him to the heart of both their long-held traditions and most modern techniques. 320 pages of Rick Stein recipes for fragrant kormas, delicate spiced fish and slow-cooked biryanis, all the while gathering ideas and inspiration for his own take on that elusive dish – the perfect curry.

 

Rick Stein Recipes from Venice to Istanbul
Accompanying the major BBC Two series, Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul includes over 100 spectacular Rick Stein recipes discovered by during his travels in the region. Packed with stunning photography of the food and locations, and filled with Rick’s passion for fresh produce and authentic cooking, this is a stunning collection of inspiring recipes to evoke the magic of the Eastern Mediterranean at home.

Rick Stein Recipes

Rick Stein Recipes

Rick Stein OBE is an English chef, restaurateur, cookery book author and television presenter. He has written over 20 cookery books, an autobiography and made over 30 programmes including 12 cookery series. He has also cooked for The Queen and Prince Philip, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and French President, Jacques Chirac.

Rick is best known for a love of fresh seafood and made his name in the 90’s with his earliest books and television series based on his life as chef and owner of The Seafood Restaurant in the fishing port of Padstow on the North Coast of Cornwall which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015. As he said at the time “nothing is more exhilarating than fresh fish simply cooked.”

Since then he has expanded his horizons to cover numerous journeys over the world in search of great dishes, and also increased his business empire.

In April 2016, the BBC aired a Rick Stein’s Long Weekends series where he visited five destinations for a long weekend including Bordeaux, Reykjavik, Berlin, Vienna and Bologna. A further five Rick Stein Long Weekends episodes will be aired on BBC Two this autumn as well as the release of Rick Stein’s Long Weekends book on the 6th October, published by BBC Books. February 2016, BBC aired a one off Rick Stein’s Taste of Shanghai episode, looking at how much Shanghai’s culinary roots have changed over the past 20 years.

2015 saw Rick Stein’s new book, From Venice to Istanbul: A food journey through the Eastern Mediterranean release in July with a BBC TV series that followed in August. He was also involved in the BBC 2 series A Cook Abroad which aired in March. Rick opened a new restaurant on the iconic Fistral beach, one of the best surf beaches in Europe in Easter 2015 and opened a 200 seated restaurant in Sandbanks, Dorset at the end of November.

2014 was a busy year for Rick. He released Fish and Shellfish, an updated and revised edition of his cookery classic Seafood, and filmed From Venice to Istanbul. Alongside this, he opened up his first restaurant outside of Cornwall, Rick Stein in Winchester and shortly after opened a restaurant in the fishing village of Porthleven, Cornwall also called Rick Stein.

Rick Stein lives in Padstow and London with Sarah and her children Zach and Olivia. He has three sons, Edward, Jack, and Charles, from his previous marriage to business partner, Jill. Stein is the uncle of Radio 1 and nightclub DJ Judge Jules and artist Lucy Stein. Rick Stein’s brother is the famous neurophysiologist Professor John Stein.

Rick’s impact on the local economy of Padstow is such that it has been nicknamed “Padstein” despite the phrase being openly disputed by Rick himself.

There’s no dispute though that Rick’s dog Chalky, who appeared in many of his programmes but who sadly died in 2007, was in the words of a Padstow fisherman “more famous than Ricky Stein.”