He cooked twice for Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, as well as for the former French president Jacques Chirac and for Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip. A book has accompanied each series, and Stein's book English Seafood Cookery won the Glenfiddich Award for Food Book of the Year in 1989. Cheap to make, but full of shellfish flavour, we think you’re going to really like green rice with garlic, parsley and mussels . Share our passion for great food and drink and recreate some of their favourite recipes from around the UK, as well as those discovered on culinary travels, in your own kitchen at home.

Distraught by his father's suicide, at age 19 he went to Australia, where he worked as a labourer in an abattoir and as a clerk in a naval dockyard. He and Burns had a five-year affair before Jill found out and then divorced Stein in 2007, [32] but agreed to continue to run the business together. Of German descent, Christopher Richard Stein was born on 4 January 1947 [2] in Churchill, Oxfordshire, to Eric Stein (1908-1965) and Dorothy Gertrude née Jackson (1909-1999). After appearing once as a guest chef in Keith Floyd's 1985 series Floyd on Fish and in his 1986 series Floyd on Food, he was offered the chance to present his own series – like the "travelogue" style of cookery show pioneered by Floyd – on BBC television, using Floyd's producer and director David Pritchard. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of the last six decades.The celebrated seafood chef travels to the Peak District to visit his favourite formal vegetable garden at Chatsworth House, before crossing the River Severn to sample the delights of Wales, including cawl, Welsh black cattle, Conway mussels and salt marsh lamb. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. The pair still had a licence for a restaurant in another part of the building, so they continued with that to avert bankruptcy. Their milk is pasteurised, to ensure it’s safe for anybody to drink, but never homogenised or standardised. The celebrated seafood chef travels north and cooks salmon caught on a fishing trip on the River Tyne.

Stein partially completed a hotel management traineeship with British Transport Hotels at its Great Western Royal Hotel in Paddington. July 2016, Rick and Jill Stein received the Special Award at the prestigious Catey Awards, for their more than 41 years of outstanding contribution to the hospitality industry. On 22 June 2020, it was confirmed that Stein's restaurant in Porthleven, Cornwall would close permanently due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Stein was educated at Wells Court, a preparatory school just outside Tewkesbury, [7] then Wells House, the Court's bigger sister-school at Malvern Wells, and then Uppingham School. Honestly, from the first sip of your latte or flat white that’s been lovingly poured by our baristas, you’ll know you’re drinking something a bit special. Remove the cinnamon stick from the lamb sauce, season to taste with some salt and pepper and spoon it over the top of the aubergines.

In 2022, Stein underwent Open-Heart Surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital to repair a defective heart valve.Using the same pan you cooked the onion mixture in, heat one and a half tablespoons of sunflower oil until very hot.

His shows have included Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea, Fruits of the Sea, Seafood Odyssey, Fresh Food, Seafood Lovers' Guide, Food Heroes, French Odyssey, Mediterranean Escapes, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein's Spain and Rick Stein's India. As seen on Rick Stein’s Cornwall, this is Rick’s whole sea bass with garlic, ginger and spring onion recipe. Stein said at the time of opening, "Ever since a memorable weekend eating Pambula oysters and flathead in Merimbula in the sixties, I've had the image of the clean blue sea and sweet seafood of the South Coast fixed in my head so when I was introduced to Mollymook about six years ago I knew that one day I would open up a restaurant celebrating local fish and shellfish but keeping it really simple. Taste of the West, the largest independent regional food group in the UK and promote and support fantastic local food and drink producers from the region, certainly agree – awarding Trink Dairy GOLD in 2020.Along with business partner (and first wife) Jill Stein, he has run the Stein hotel and restaurant business in the UK. He is also the head chef and a co-owner of the "Rick Stein at Bannisters" restaurants in Mollymook and Port Stephens in Australia, with his second wife, Sarah. Gradually beat in the milk, bring to the boil, stirring, and leave to simmer very gently for 10 minutes, giving it a stir every now and then. In 2012, Stein was among the British cultural icons selected by pop artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Heat a frying pan until it is jumping hot, add one tablespoon of the oil and a layer of aubergine slices and fry quickly until tender and lightly coloured on each side.