Rick Stein

Rick Stein
Born	(1947-01-04) 4 January 1947 (age 70) Churchill, Oxfordshire, England
Education	Uppingham School New College, Oxford
Spouse(s)	Jill Newstead (m. 1975–2004) Sarah Burns (m. 2011)
Children	3
Website	rickstein.com
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s) The Seafood Restaurant, Rick Stein's Fish Restaurant Rick Stein Cafe
Television show(s) Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea, 1995 Rick Stein's Fruits of the Sea, 1997 Rick Stein's Seafood Odyssey, 1999 Fresh Food, 1999 The Seafood Lover's Guide, 2000 Rick Stein's India, 2013 Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul, 2015

Christopher Richard "Rick" Stein OBE (born 4 January 1947) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and television presenter. He is Head Chef and co-owner of "Rick Stein at Bannisters" at Mollymook, New South Wales, Australia, and owns four restaurants in Padstow, a fish and chip shop in Falmouth, Cornwall and fish and chip shops in Porthleven and Newquay, Cornwall. He has written a number of cookery books and has presented a number of television programmes.

Of German descent, Stein was born on 4 January 1947 in Churchill, Oxfordshire, to Eric and Dorothy Stein.

Stein was educated at Wells Court, a preparatory school just outside Tewkesbury, then Wells House, the Court's bigger sister-school at Malvern Wells, and then Uppingham School. He 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.

Stein partially completed a hotel management traineeship with British Transport Hotels at its Great Western Royal Hotel in Paddington. He worked there as a chef for six months. Distraught by his father's suicide, at age 19 he went to Australia, where he worked as a labourer in an abattoir and as a clerk in a naval dockyard. He travelled to New Zealand and Mexico around that time to "take some time out".