Product Description

Presenting over 100 seafood recipes, this book takes readers on a tour of the world in search of the ideas, techniques and ingredients on which they are based. Among the places visited are Chesapeake Bay, the Carolinas, the small Australian town of Noosa, Goa, and the Thai village of Hua Hin.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153305 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Exotic spices, traditional fare and flavours from throughout the world can be found in abundance in the latest Rick Stein offering-Seafood Odyssey.

From the classic cookery of France to the Far East and Thailand, Rick Stein has undertaken a personal journey to bring back flavours from Europe and more exotic climes. Travelling with his curiosity and the childlike delight in discovering new flavours, he has sampled each country's unique cooking styles, tastes and textures and bound them up in a book to enjoy in all kitchens and, of course, on all dinner tables! Culinary classics like the Charleston Seafood Gumbo, Baked Whole Sea Bass (with roasted red peppers, tomatoes, anchovies and potatoes) and Kedgeree of Arbroath Smokies, are mixed in with more unusual dishes such as Indian Sardine and Potato Curry Puffs, Singapore Chilli Crab and the French Tarte aux Moules (highly recommended).

In addition to providing clear and concise recipes with mouth-watering pictures of the finished dish, there are also delicate watercolours illustrating the groups of different fish and shellfish. Rick Stein's love of the many varieties of fruits de mer shines through as he describes each ingredient and recipe with loving flair and encourages the reader to experiment with seafood in the kitchen. --Rebecca Loades

About the Author
Rick Stein and his wife Jill own The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, which attracts thousands of fish lovers (from Britain and abroad) every year. Rick’s first book, English Seafood Cookery, won the 1989 Glenfiddich Award for Food Book of the Year and Taste of the Sea won the 1995 André Simon Food Book Award as well as the 1996 Good Food Award for Cookery Book of the Year. His latest bestseller, Seafood Odyssey, has sold over 100,000 copies. Rick, Jill and their three sons live in a house overlooking the sea near Padstow in Cornwall.

Excerpted from Rick Stein's Seafood Odyssey by Rick Stein. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
The Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, is an odd place in which to think about a new cookery book. Last October, I was at a lecture there given by Sir David Attenborough to celebrate fifty years of the BBC’s Natural History Unit. There were film clips of bears sliding along the polar ice, lions and crocodiles fighting at a water hole in Africa, and killer whales snatching sea lions from a beach in Argentina. The hall was filled with the tanned and the fit, all famous in the world of nature and geography and all just back from exotic adventures in Borneo or Patagonia. In that splendid hall, as I watched their films and listened to their stories of foreign places, a germ of an idea for a new book was born.

Isn’t this, I thought, an endearing British enthusiasm? We love to explore the world and, like magpies, bring back objects or knowledge, ideas and memories to share and enrich our own lives. As I thought more about this, I realised that this is exactly what I do, too. I spend all my spare time travelling on a seafood odyssey in search of new and exciting dishes. But my quest is not just for the new. In Britain, because we don’t have a great tradition of time-honoured fish recipes, I have had to look elsewhere in the world to build up a satisfactory repertoire of dishes that would keep my Seafood Restaurant customers happy. At any point in time the menu in Padstow will contain a number of dishes I have lovingly collected and brought back from my travels.

Customer Reviews

If you think fish isn't your thing, it will be after this.
I have to say this is a great recipe book. As a keen, but novice cook, one of the best bits is the introduction where Rick explains, with photos, how to prepare fish. It certainly took the mystery out of it for me.

But the highest recommendation I can give is that I have been lucky enough to eat at Rick's Seafood Restaurant in Cornwall and attempted to recreate my meal using this book. I must say that the results were amazing - my Kingfish curry tasted almost exactly like my main course in the restaurant and it was even pretty easy to make!

(Only 4 stars, because, as the previous reviewer says, photos for each recipe would be preferable.)

A most readable recipe book. Highly recommended.
The book is an excellent collection of seafood recipes to treasure and try. It complements the TV series which it accompanies in managing to convey Rick's enthusiasm and passion for his work. I was in the UK when it was shown on TV early this year and was hooked for the entire series. His anecdotes for each recipe makes absorbing reading even for those who do not often go into the kitchen. His joie de vivre is especially infectious and is an inspiration to me. The book was a gift from a friend and I shall treasure it. My only complaint would be that not every recipe has a picture to accompany it. Apart from that, one of my dreams now is to have a meal at the Seafood Restaurant in Padstow one day and I suppose I can give no higher compliment than that.

OK
This book is great but if you want a great Rick Steins cookbook you cant go past "Seafood", it contains recipes from all of his other books and more. This is a good guide to his TV series, but for a complete seafood guide get a hold of his Seafood cookbook.