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Cooking with the celebrity chefs
Rick Stein – The Seafood School
Think of fish cookery and inevitably Rick Stein will appear on
the list of notable chefs. The Seafood School, in Padstow, Cornwall,
is one of a number of related business set up by Rick Stein, the
first being his award winning restaurant. It was the restaurant
that got him started in the food business, a business he has now
expanded to include a seafood café, 'Rick Stein's Caf', the
Seafood Deli, the cookery school and an on-line business selling
food, wine and food related goods.
Rick Stein made his mark as a celebrity chef on programmes such
as 'Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea' and 'Sea Food Odyssey' and he
is also the author a many cookbooks, among them 'English Seafood
Cookery' and 'Rick Stein's Seafood'
The Seafood School offers two and four day courses as well as a
range of one day courses and demonstrations. The four day course
now includes a trip to Newlyn fish market to buy fresh fish, a valuable
exercise for the novice fish cook. Specialist courses cover Thai
and Chinese fish cookery, French and Italian fish cookery, Shellfish
cookery and Christmas fish cookery.
The courses are run in attractive modern kitchens, which you can
view on-line via the 'virtual tour' feature on The Seafood School
website.
Two and four day courses are offered as both residential or non-residential,
the latter being useful if you prefer to arrange your own accommodation
in the area; perhaps because the rest of the family wants a seaside
holiday in Cornwall. If you go for the residential option a non-cooking
partner is offered free accommodation with meals and drinks charged
extra. For non-cooking partners, or if you want to extend your stay
in the area yourself, the web site has a page of attractive suggestions,
some of them fish related: from Sea fishing, to The National Lobster
Hatchery and The Eden Project.
Further information can be found on The Seafood Restaurant website.
This is a slick professional site with clear navigation. You may
have few display problems if you are using an older browser, and
you may need to download a plug-in to view the 'virtual tour'. Dates
and prices are all clearly displayed on the site. Go to The
Seafood Restaurant website now :
Rick Stein can also sometimes be found as a guest chef on the Tasting
Places courses in Italy or Greece. Link to Tasting
Places.
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RECCOMMENDED BOOK: –
Rick
Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide 
Winner
of this years Glenfiddich Drink & Food Award, Rick Stein
(and Chalky his trusty dog) discover great dishes and small
delicacies amongst the tidal estuaries, shingle banks and
rocky shores of Britain. Rick travels from the bleak Suffolk
coast – where fishermen scrape a living catching cod
– to the wild, clear waters of Scotland's lochs bringing
back an abundance of stories and imaginative, colourful recipes.
The book is organised geographically with each
chapter covering one of the regions featured in the series.
Rick describes the fish-catching and fish-eating traditions
of each area as well as details of the local life, legends
and literature. He singles out local delicacies and includes
six to eight recipes per chapter. Each chapter is illustrated
with stunning food and landscape photography and ends with
an area map and a guide to a small selection of the best hotels,
restaurants, pubs and specialist suppliers (including information
on extra locations, not featured in the series). "Just
as I do in the restaurant to keep ahead of the game, I look
for the best suppliers, the freshest fish and who catches
them. In a way, this is what this series is about, the fish
I love, for all sorts of reasons – not just taste or
fashion – where they come from and the people who catch
them and the best way to cook them. As a result of looking
around the country for the best seafood, it's turned out to
be a love affair with the changing coastline of Great Britain
and Ireland and the business of going to sea in small boats
to catch the freshest prime fish we have." – Rick
Stein.
CLICK HERE
for 'Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide' and other books by
Rick Stein
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