Rick Stein

it's just delicious.

I remember Rick Stein talking about tasting Thai food for the first time and saying it was like seeing colour TV for the first time or hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time.

And I totally get it.

It's that vividity.

And our next guest is the, not a, the seafood superstar, culinary captain and the nation's favourite foodie.

Here he is to dish the deets on his new book, Rick Stein's Cookery Course, which is out now.

It's Rick Stein.

Woo! It seems we can have our cake and eat it.

What have you brought in,

You've been cooking on gas for 60 years.

He's been on fire for 60 years.

We love you, Rick Stein.

You might have noticed we didn't do our usual food slot yesterday because we had a special treat in store for you today.

Food guru Rick Stein, you're very welcome back to the show.

Nice

to talk to you again, Brendan.

Rick, you've finally written the definitive Rick Stein book, I think.

It's called The Rick Stein Cookery Course.

Everything anyone could need to know, even including how to joint a rabbit.

It's all in there.

Let's do the menu math.

Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, dinner for two.

Soup, 15 pounds 50.

Crab souffle, 25 pounds.

In terms of regular programmes, on at the same time each day, BBC One starts each weekday with Animal Park at 9.30, followed by Expert Witness at 10.45.

The morning continues with Homes Under the Hammer at 11.15, then Bargain Hunt at 12.15. Each afternoon, there's Rick Stein's Australia at 2.45pm, then Escape to the Country at 3pm, with the exception of Wednesday.

Finally, The Travelling Auctioneer is on at 4.45pm. On Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 3.15pm on BBC Two, there's The Hidden World of Hospitality with Tom Kerridge.

On Wednesday and Thursday at that time, there's live cricket from the 100 series.

You might have already heard our first part on St. Ennidock, which is a Lynx golf course down in North Cornwall, not too far from a town called Padstow, which is pretty well known for...

Rick Stein and some of the seafood and things he's done down there.

But St. Anadark, super, super golf course, real gem in English golf.

It's probably sort of rating in the top five consistently in England.

I like them.

Oh, did you watch the Rick Stein one? No.

I love Rick Stein.

Do you?

I've got

a real thing about him.

The thing about Rick Stein is there was a program on about a month ago that was like an hour, it was like 90 minutes.

Oh, the thing about Rick Stein.

He's taken it far too seriously, trying to do his little jokes and be all slimy.

it doesn't really need to be 50 minutes long when it gets all they try and make a point of it and there's a competition you just want to see the bit at the beginning where fat people bounce off balls and land in the mud that's pretty i'm not saying i couldn't watch an hour of that i could but half an hour of that will suffice but my own highlight and my own good news is that um telly is legendary again because you simply cannot go wrong that is a show that is an hour and a half of rick stein Probably the highlight of my month.

So I've got a little clip.

This is my favourite bit of the show.

This is Rick Stein talking about the mandolin that he bought for his new kitchen.

Now I'm using this Japanese mandolin, which you've got to be extremely careful with.

Every chef that uses it cuts themselves once, but you never do it again.

Oh, you know it's going to happen.