Rick (and Chalky his trusty dog) discover great seafood dishes & small delicacies amongst the tidal estuaries shingle banks & rocky shores of Britain. Rick travels from the bleak Suffolk coast where fishermen scrape a living catching cod to the wild clear waters of Scotlands lochs bringing back an abundance of stories & imaginative colourful recipes. The book is organised geographically with each chapter covering one of the regions featured in the BBC series. Rick describes the fish-catching & fish-eating traditions of each area as well as details of the local life legends & literature. He singles out local delicacies &
Includes:: six to eight fish & seafood recipes per chapter. Each chapter is illustrated with stunning food & landscape photography & ends with an area map & a guide to a small selection of the best hotels restaurants pubs & specialist suppliers (including information on extra locations not featured in the series). Just as I do in the restaurant to keep ahead of the game I look for the best suppliers the freshest fish & who catches them. In a way this is what this series is about the fish I love for all sorts of reasons not just taste or fashion where they come from & the people who catch them & the best way to cook them. As a result of looking around the country for the best seafood its turned out to be a love affair with the changing coastline of Great Britain & Ireland & the business of going to sea in small boats to catch the freshest prime fish we have. Rick Stein.