Rick Stein's Cookery Course: Recipes and techniques from a lifetime in the kitchen

Rick Stein has been cooking, and inspiring food lovers, for over 60 years. Now he's going right back to the basics.

With 150 classic recipes and photographed step-by-step techniques, Rick Stein's Cookery Course brings together a lifetime of cooking expertise into one essential volume.

In this book Rick looks back on the essential recipes and techniques he returns to again and again. With chapters focusing on main ingredients - eggs & dairy, vegetables, fish & shellfish, meat & poultry, rice & grains - this is his most extensive book yet. It features recipes big and small, each one accompanied by insightful tips and personal anecdotes from one of Britain's best-loved chefs.

Rick Stein's passion for using good-quality local produce and his talent for creating delicious recipes in his books and restaurants have won him a host of awards, accolades and fans. As well as presenting a number of television series, he has published many best-selling cookery books, including Rick Stein's Christmas, French Odyssey, Coast to Coast, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein's Long Weekends and Rick Stein's India. Rick has always believed in showcasing local seafood and farm produce in his four restaurants in Padstow, Cornwall, where he also has a cookery school, food shops and a pub in the nearby village of St Merryn. In 2018 Rick was awarded an CBE for services to the economy. He divides his time between Padstow, London and Australia, where he also has two seafood restaurants by the sea in Mollymook, and Port Stephens NSW.