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Rick Stein's Food Heroes: Recipes Inspired by the Champions of Good Food
This book is both an inspirational collection of recipes and a delightful celebration of British ingredients and those who create them. In his accompanying TV series, he travelled around Britain, searching out the best of all British produce, from bread to beer and lamb to cheese. The book contains over 100 recipes, including smoked duck breast salad with new potatoes, and fresh raspberry tart with hazelnut and coconut pastry.
180 pages, Paperback
First published March 3, 2002
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Rick Stein
91 books57 followersChristopher Richard "Rick" Stein OBE (born 4 January 1947) is an English chef, restaurateur and television presenter. He is currently the head chef and co-owner of "Rick Stein at Bannisters" at Mollymook, New South Wales, Australia,[1] owns four restaurants in Padstow, a fish and chip shop in Falmouth, Cornwall and has written or presented a number cookery books and television programmes.
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March 17, 2021
Ugh - ok-ish, I guess?
I’m actually terribly disappointed about this book. I’m speaking as a huge fan of Rick Stein & his simple, locally-based approach to cooking as seen in his BBC series ‘Long Weekends’, ‘Mediterranean’, ‘India’ & ‘Far East’ - although touristy shows are for a British audience, his recipes have a depth & sincerity(& simplicity) that captures the essence of regional cuisine.
‘Food Heroes’ is focused on traditional British cooking & recipes don’t really ‘work’ with non- local substitutes (specialized blue cheese is, after all, specialized blue cheese). In his other series I could swap out proteins or change it to all vegetarian while maintaining the same spice-style & cooking techniques (yum, aoili on everything;) but with the recipes here I can’t really do that - duck, is well, duck and although I can do roast chicken it’s not the same because spices in the British recipes are more limited... in all actuality this might be more of a complaint about British cooking as a whole rather than Rick Stein per se.
Desserts are ok, if you’re into custard everything;)
I’d recommend Rick Stein’s ‘Long Weekends’ & ‘Spain’ as waaaay superior cookbooks than his ‘Food Heroes’ - photos are better (less dated late ‘90s) & the writing actually makes you FEEL like you’re traveling alongside Rick on a path of culinary discovery- his British book is more ‘telling’ about an uninspired food path :/
I’m sorry Rick, I was disappointed:(
I’m actually terribly disappointed about this book. I’m speaking as a huge fan of Rick Stein & his simple, locally-based approach to cooking as seen in his BBC series ‘Long Weekends’, ‘Mediterranean’, ‘India’ & ‘Far East’ - although touristy shows are for a British audience, his recipes have a depth & sincerity(& simplicity) that captures the essence of regional cuisine.
‘Food Heroes’ is focused on traditional British cooking & recipes don’t really ‘work’ with non- local substitutes (specialized blue cheese is, after all, specialized blue cheese). In his other series I could swap out proteins or change it to all vegetarian while maintaining the same spice-style & cooking techniques (yum, aoili on everything;) but with the recipes here I can’t really do that - duck, is well, duck and although I can do roast chicken it’s not the same because spices in the British recipes are more limited... in all actuality this might be more of a complaint about British cooking as a whole rather than Rick Stein per se.
Desserts are ok, if you’re into custard everything;)
I’d recommend Rick Stein’s ‘Long Weekends’ & ‘Spain’ as waaaay superior cookbooks than his ‘Food Heroes’ - photos are better (less dated late ‘90s) & the writing actually makes you FEEL like you’re traveling alongside Rick on a path of culinary discovery- his British book is more ‘telling’ about an uninspired food path :/
I’m sorry Rick, I was disappointed:(
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