Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea

Britain's top seafood chef dispels the myth that cooking fish and shellfish requires esoteric skills. Based on a 14-part PBS series, Rick Stein's new cookbook features fresh seafood recipes that bring the exquisite tastes of fine seafood dining to the home kitchen. Stein and his wife operate The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall. Rick Stein is the high-spirited host of the lively new public television series, Fruits of the Sea. After graduating in English from Oxford, he and his wife Jill opened The Seafood Restaurant in 1975. Located in the tiny Cornish fishing village of Padstow, England, the restaurant has twice been voted the Egon Ronay Restaurant of the Year. Renown for his passion for the sea and its fruits, as well as his prowess in the kitchen, Stein has spent many years exploring the culinary wonders of the sea that surround his seaside community. His travels in pursuit of the ocean's bounty have taken him as far as Australia, America, Indonesia, and the Mediterranean. He lives with his wife and three sons, and a small terrier named Chalky, overlooking the sea in Cornwall.