Joy Is Christmas Down Under, with Rick Stein

Joy Is Christmas Down Under, with Rick Stein

From Honey & Co: The Food Sessions by Honey & Co.

December 24, 2025 · 32 min · Season 12 · Episode 8

About this episode

Rick Stein joins Honey & Co. to discuss Christmas and share festive recipes.

A special Christmas treat for our final episode of the season, and who better to join us than Mr Christmas himself, Rick Stein! Rick is a renowned English chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter, best known for his love of fresh, simple seafood and for building a culinary empire in Padstow, Cornwall. After studying English at Oxford, he started out as a nightclub owner, running club nights in Padstow. In 1975 he converted the club into  The Seafood Restaurant , which became highly successful and earned him a national reputation. Rick has since hosted numerous popular BBC cooking series, written over 30 cookbooks, and runs restaurants in the UK and Australia, receiving a CBE in 2018 for services to the economy.  Rick's latest cookbook, Rick Stein's Christmas  is his first book entirely dedicated to festive recipes, memories, and stories. What a treat! About the Joy Season The world feels like a lot right now, and it can be hard to find those small moments that make us smile. In restaurants, we get three chances a day to bring joy — breakfast, lunch and dinner — but it doesn’t stop there. This season, The Joy Season, we’ll be talking to some truly…

People in this episode

Guest: Rick Stein

Topics covered

  • Christmas
  • seafood
  • cooking
  • joy
  • festive recipes

Keywords

  • Istanbul
  • culinary empire
  • cookbooks
  • BBC cooking series

Mentioned in this episode

Products: WhatsApp, Rick Stein's Christmas

Books & works: CBE, Whiplash, The Songlines, Astral Weeks, These Days, For Everyman, Feats Don't Fail Me, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Places: Padstow, Cornwall, UK, Australia, Istanbul, Lisbon, Portugal, LA

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