Under a Mackerel Sky

‘All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why’

Rick Stein''s childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic. His parents were charming and gregarious, their five children much—loved and given freedom typical of the time. As he grew older, the holidays were filled with loud and lively parties in his parents'' Cornish barn. But ever—present was the unpredicatible mood of his bipolar father, with Rick frequently the focus of his...