Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8921 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-26
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 288 minutes

Synopsis
Rick Stein travels around Britain and puts the nation's favourites to the test. He also meets cheese-makers, ham curers, brewers and other dedicated producers of fine food and ingredients. Rick then puts these ingredients to use in his own special way in dishes such as Smoked Duck Breast Salad with New Potatoes, Welsh Rarebit, Fresh Raspberry Tart with Hazelnut and Coconut Pastry and Bread and Butter Pudding.

Customer Reviews

Great series
For anyone with a real interest in the slow food movement or just generally interested in how real, quality food is produced this series is fascinating.

Rick Stein travels around the whole of the British Isles and meets local small producers of high quality produce (from cheese to meat to vegetables) and then shows how to cook using the product as one of the ingredients.

As is ever the way with such programmes they are not perfect. Rick's ranting about the lack of support for small producers is fairly repetitive but is a minor downside. The only real criticizm I could level at this is that although Rick spends a lot of time complaining about "fancy foreign food" being all that he can get in many of the hotels he stays in, a great number of the recipes he cooks seem to amount to the same "fancy foreign food" that he is complaining about. Personally I like the fancy foreign food so don't have a problem with it save that I can't understand why he and his producer/director couldn't see the anomoly themselves.

That aside this is something I've watched again and again and I continue to be fascinated by the content and charmed by Rick Stein who is incredibly enthusiastic, knowledgeable and charming throughout.

His outburst at the state of the steak he is served in one chain hotel is particularly amusing!

Food Heroes
An excellent DVD set of the original series and another helping. Ordinary, wholesome food that can be cooked by anyone. The only downside is that the BBC has decided to miss off the last 2 programmes of the 'another helping' shame on you beeb

Fantastic
A true delight to watch. Not only does Rick cook up some brilliant,traditional food, he also explores where this food comes from. Very different from the other "cookery DVD's" out there, Rick has passion and enthusiasm for what he is doing. With his dear,faithfull companion Chalky the Jack Russel Terrier, Rick has made a programme that is really about the heart of traditioanl British food. The original music composed for the series is outstanding, and the photography is clear. A fantastic buy.