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Mouth-watering recipes based on Rick's book 'Tastes Of The Sea'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetic and imaginative seafood - impossible to supercede, 29 Oct 2002

By	"abethefishpeddler" - See all my reviews

Rick isn't a celebrity chef, he is a champion of food, and this delicious video isn't about cooking, it's about so much more. It's a homage to England and the sea, to its people and their love of fish and fishing. It's a tribute to the brave fishermen who grapple with merciless waters and to the small producers who reject and defy the corporate ugliness of intensive farming. It honours the small town communities who celebrate wholesome, honest good food. It's also a series about poetry and beauty; landscapes, sunsets, seascapes and rock pools; the tranquility and the miracle of life. It is insightful, cultural and well made - food lovers everywhere please buy it and let the edible waves wash over you.

Taste of the Sea is six episodes of early Rick Stein from 1994/95 - raw, pure, passionate and retaining most of his hair. In the current, excellent series, 'Food Heroes', Rick does at times look like a fish out of water, but here he is back to what he loves best. Squid, sea bass, cod, hake, mussels, lobsters, clams, in fact a whole aquarium of creatures, are chopped, grilled, fried, boiled and skewered, doused in parsley, butter, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mouth-watering and inspiring, these dishes are the stuff that dreams are made of.

We begin in the kitchen, the very pulse of Rick's culinary body, in a tour behind the scenes at his Pudsley restaurant - it's a window of reality TV, equipped with finger grating, shouting, swearing (cleanly edited out), plus ambrosial anecdotes on customers and cuisine tensions. You smell the heat and you feel the passion. One scene sees the chefs working in silence and darkness so as not to disturb the filming.

Eventually Rick is ejected out onto the beach to cook - a delicious seaside salad - but the tide encroaches and washes him away in a rocky, paradoxical marriage of nature and cookery. The beach sets the scene for many wonderful sketches, particularly the summer party for Rick and his staff.

The pell-mell of the kitchen is shrewdly juxtaposed beside the refreshing open spaces of resplendent Cornwall. We glide across the rocky clifftops, cross the golden beaches and head out to sea. A strange, dream-like music accompanies the series, along with the hypnotic poetry of the shipping forecast. Singing seamen also regale us, in gales, with songs from century's passed. I wholeheartedly endorse and beseech you to buy this stunning and eminently re-watchable video. It is stupendous, tremendous and wondrous.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mouth watering!!, 4 Mar 2005

By	"ringgo11" - See all my reviews

Since returning home, missed watching Rick on TV. Remembered my student days wishing we had oysters and prawns and crabs. Yum!
Unbelievable, but must have watched the video 5 times at least! When there's nothing good on TV, I put on the vid. Had some fresh crab meat? Put on the video. Wished I was in Cornwall, having the hot seafood platter. For seafood lovers, this is THE video to watch.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My appetite is whetted, 20 Sep 2001

By	"pchandrruangphen" - See all my reviews

I've always been an enthusiastic watcher of Mr Stein's programmes, but I somehow missed the Taste of The Sea series when it was aired on terrestrial. So it was great to watch the whole thing back to back on this video in a kind of Rick Stein seafood/his restaurant/Padstow fest. The recipes are generally great - but please, what's the obsession with aniseed flavour! That aside, I was inspired to cook more seafood and have even developed a soft spot for Jack Russells, thanks to Chalky. I only wish the BBC would release his other series - and this time in DVD if they don't mind. Why should only "hip and happening" chefs like Jamie Oliver get the benefit of the new format?

Overall, this is the most entertaining cookery video since Far Flung Floyd (everybody should get that too while they still can), and it's one that I'll watch over and over.