Rick Stein Bio Wiki Age Wife Cornwall Cookbooks and Net Worth
Rick Stein is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter. Along with business partner Jill Stein, he has run the Stein hotel and restaurant business in the UK.
The business has a number of renowned restaurants, shops, and hotels in Padstow along with other restaurants in Marlborough, Winchester, and Barnes. Rick is also the head chef and a co-owner of “Rick Stein at Bannisters” at Mollymook and Port Stephens in Australia, with his second wife, Sarah. He has written cookery books and presented television programs.
Rick was born on January 4, 1947, in Churchill, United Kingdom. He is75 years old.
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of5 ft 8 in(Approx. 1.72 m).
He was born and raised in Churchill, Oxfordshire by his parentsEricandDorothy Stein. Rick grew up on a farm alongside his siblingsJohn,Henrietta, andJaney. In 1965, when he was 18, his father, a retired managing director of The Distillers Company, killed himself by jumping from a cliff, near the family’s holiday home at Trevose Head, after suffering from bipolar disorder. He is of German descent and holds English nationality.
Rick met his first wifeJill Newsteadin Padstow. They married in 1975 and set up their restaurant and hotel business. Rick has three sons with Jill:Edward,Jack, andCharleswho are involved in the family business.
He metSarah Burns,20 years his junior, in Australia in 1997, when she was a publicity manager for Australia Gourmet Traveller magazine. Rick and Burns had a five-year affair before Jill found out and then divorced Stein in 200, but agreed to continue to run the business together. They married on 7 October 2011.
He attended Wells Court, a preparatory school just outside Tewkesbury, then Wells House, the Court’s bigger sister school at Malvern Wells, and then Uppingham School. Rick took A-levels in English, History, and Geography, but failed all of them. He moved to a cram school in Brighton, gaining E grades in English and History.
He partially completed a hotel management traineeship with British Transport Hotels at its Great Western Royal Hotel in Paddington. Rich worked there as a chef for six months. Being on his own, he read widely, reflected on his attitude to education, and applied successfully to New College, Oxford, where he earned an English degree in 1971. Shortly after that, he moved to Padstow.
Rich was awarded the OBE in the 2003 New Year Honours for services to tourism in Cornwall and the CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to the economy. On 22 June 2020, it was confirmed that his restaurant in Porthleven, Cornwall would close permanently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The restaurant had been closed since March 2020. In July it was announced that chef Michael Caines would take over the restaurant.
His shows have included Taste of the Sea, Fruits of the Sea, Seafood Odyssey, Fresh Food, Seafood Lovers’ Guide, Food Heroes, French Odyssey, Mediterranean Escapes, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein’s Spain, and India. In the last five series, Rick set out in search of the best in the region’s foods.
In 2016, Rick embarked on a series of weekend culinary adventures around Europe in search of good food, lovely wine, and brilliant recipes, Long Weekends. On his adventures, Rick explores Bordeaux, Berlin, Reykjavik, Vienna, Bologna, Copenhagen, Cadiz, Lisbon, Thessaloniki, and Palermo.
Along with business partner and ex-wife Jill, Rick has run the Stein hotel and restaurant business in the UK. The business has a number of renowned restaurants, shops, and hotels in Padstow along with other restaurants in Marlborough, Winchester, and Barnes. He is also the head chef and a co-owner of “Rick Stein at Bannisters” at Mollymook and Port Stephens in Australia, with his second wife, Sarah
After college, Rick converted a mobile disco in Padstow, which he had run as a student, into a quayside nightclub with his friend, Johnny. It became known for its freeze-dried curries. However, the nightclub lost its license and was closed down by the police, mainly due to frequent brawls with local fishermen.
His impact on the economy of Padstow is such that it has been nicknamed “Padstein”. Some of his restaurants in Padstow include The Seafood Restaurant, St. Petroc’s Bistro, Fish & Chips, The Cornish Arms, and Stein’s on the Quay.
Spain 2011 India 2013 Under a Mackerel Sky: A Memoir 2013 Long Weekends 2016 The road to Mexico 2017 Secret France 2019 At Home 2021 My Kitchen Table: 100 Fish and Seafood Recipes 2011 My Favourite Seafood Recipes, 2002
Rich has become a popular television presenter on food programs. After appearing once as a guest chef in Keith Floyd’s 1985 series Floyd on Fish and in his 1986 series Floyd on Food, he became offered the chance to present his own series. They include the “travelogue” style of cookery show pioneered by Floyd on BBC television, using Floyd’s producer and director David Pritchard.
This caused some rivalry, even feud, only resolved shortly before Floyd’s death. Rick’s shows have included Taste of the Sea, Fruits of the Sea, Seafood Odyssey, Fresh Food, Seafood Lovers’ Guide, Food Heroes, and French Odyssey among others.
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Rick’s estimated net worth is $15 million.
Rick is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter. Along with business partner Jill Stein, he has run the Stein hotel and restaurant business in the UK.
