RICK STEIN
Rick owns and runs four restaurants in the small Cornish fishing village of Padstow. He has written 10 cookery books and made eight television cookery series. His passion is still for seafood; as he says, "nothing is more exhilarating than fresh fish simply cooked". It is the local fishermen's daily bounty of perfectly fresh fish that is behind the success of Rick's Seafood Restaurant. Rick has cooked for many famous people including the Queen and Prince Philip, Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac. He still lives in Padstow with his small Jack Russell, Chalky, who has appeared in all of his series and is, as local fisherman Brian Bate said, "more famous than Ricky Stein". Rick also has a house in Sydney with his partner Sarah Burns. Rick is currently working on a TV series and book about the Mediterranean and has recently made a programme about Japanese cooking, due to be shown in the UK this Christmas. He has also recently made films about British poet John Betjeman and novelist Daphne du Maurier. |
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