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The Sunday roast lasted through most of the week.<\/span> Either served up cold or made into shepherd\u2019s or cottage pie. We never had anything out of season, because that was the way it was then. My parents did have a taste for Italian food at the time, and my mum would occasionally make spaghetti bolognese. But the kids\u2019 food was all completely local.<\/p>\n At Uppingham, where I went to school, we had really nice food.\u00a0<\/span>I remember great roast pork on Sunday, with proper crisp crackling, apple sauce and excellent roasties. There was a place called the Buttery, where you could get millefeuilles, but made with real cr\u00e8me chantilly, not the synthetic stuff. The cook was an ex-army baker called Sandy, and I don\u2019t know why those millefeuilles were so bloody wonderful. But they were.<\/p>\n Rick remembers working in Puglia, southern Italy, and, in childhood, enjoying his mother\u2019s spaghetti bolognese and pea soup<\/p>\n When I first opened a club in Padstow <\/span>\u2013 now The Seafood Restaurant \u2013 we had a supper licence, which allowed us to serve booze until one in the morning, as long as it was with a \u2018substantial meal\u2019. In the early 1970s, that was unheard of \u2013 so we bought kilo boxes of Bachelor\u2019s freeze-dried lamb curry and mixed them with water then boiled up a whole load of rice. Everyone had to have a plastic plateful of it. I remember when we were finally done by the rozzers, and were in court \u2013 they were very jokey about how horrible the curry was.<\/span><\/p>\n A lot of the time when you\u2019re cooking on camera, you\u2019re <\/span>not actually tucking in. <\/span>If it\u2019s particularly good I might sometimes eat everything \u2013 but generally, you\u2019re just tasting and trying.<\/p>\n Wherever we are in the world, after a long day\u2019s filming, we all go out for an evening meal. <\/span>The fun of it is sitting down with the crew and eating well, talking and having a drink.<\/p>\n We had a well-publicised disaster in Puglia, in the south <\/span>of Italy.<\/span> I was driving round in this Land Rover and it got stolen with about \u00a330,000-worth of gear in the back. Fortunately, our fixer was friendly with the wife of some local Mafia man, and after the news got back to him, the Land Rover mysteriously turned up. It was found in a thicket, and nothing had gone save for one of my T-shirts, which always makes me laugh.<\/p>\n The only food I really hate is rocky road. <\/span>I don\u2019t mind marshmallow, and I love chocolate, but I hate the combination \u2013 and I don\u2019t like chocolate-covered strawberries!<\/p>\n I\u2019ve recently been back to India with my wife, Sas. <\/span>Just being in those places where I\u2019ve filmed [he was there in 2013], and not having to work, is absolutely wonderful.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/17\/78030021-0-image-a-15_1700502294524.jpg\")
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