Rick Stein cooks up a storm
If you love Japanese cuisine, then you know there is much more to it than just sushi and tempura. But don’t believe everything you hear… Since beginning March BBC Lifestyle viewers can tune in for Rick Stein who has accepted a challenge from the UK’s Japanese ambassador to cook a Japanese banquet for his distinguished guests.
Airing since last Monday at 18:30 on DStv, the program sees Rick spending a week visiting Japan’s vibrant fish markets and island restaurants aiming to master the art of cooking fish Japanese style. When Mr. Nogami, the Japanese ambassador, saw Rick on Rick Stein’s Food Heroes catching mackerel and turning it into sashimi, he was very impressed.
Rick received a prompt invite to the ambas sador’s residence, where he got to sample sashimi and other Japanese delicacies prepared by the ambassador’s skilled chefs. So the seeds were sown for Rick’s special trip to Japan to learn the art of Japanese cooking first hand. The challenge being that on his return he’d have to prepare a Japanese banquet for the ambassador and his friends. Rick is somewhat misleadingly labelled a ‘Celebrity Chef’.
In fact, together with his ex-wife Jill, he owns four restaurants, a delicatessen, a patisserie, a seafood cookery school and forty guest bedrooms in the small fishing port of Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. Rick attributes the success of all this to a simple observation: “Nothing is more exhilarating than fresh fish simply cooked.”
It was this enthusiasm for seafood that led him to make his first TV cookery series Taste of the Sea in 1995. Since then he has made nine more. In a long career as a chef, Rick has cooked twice for Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, once for the French president Jacques Chirac and, on another occasion, for the Queen and Prince Philip to celebrate the Golden Jubilee in which all her past prime ministers were invited. He was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to West Country Tourism.
Airing since last Monday at 18:30 on DStv, the program sees Rick spending a week visiting Japan’s vibrant fish markets and island restaurants aiming to master the art of cooking fish Japanese style. When Mr. Nogami, the Japanese ambassador, saw Rick on Rick Stein’s Food Heroes catching mackerel and turning it into sashimi, he was very impressed.
Rick received a prompt invite to the ambas sador’s residence, where he got to sample sashimi and other Japanese delicacies prepared by the ambassador’s skilled chefs. So the seeds were sown for Rick’s special trip to Japan to learn the art of Japanese cooking first hand. The challenge being that on his return he’d have to prepare a Japanese banquet for the ambassador and his friends. Rick is somewhat misleadingly labelled a ‘Celebrity Chef’.
In fact, together with his ex-wife Jill, he owns four restaurants, a delicatessen, a patisserie, a seafood cookery school and forty guest bedrooms in the small fishing port of Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. Rick attributes the success of all this to a simple observation: “Nothing is more exhilarating than fresh fish simply cooked.”
It was this enthusiasm for seafood that led him to make his first TV cookery series Taste of the Sea in 1995. Since then he has made nine more. In a long career as a chef, Rick has cooked twice for Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, once for the French president Jacques Chirac and, on another occasion, for the Queen and Prince Philip to celebrate the Golden Jubilee in which all her past prime ministers were invited. He was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to West Country Tourism.
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