"Sam Stern" is a United Kingdom/British celebrity chef and author. He has written six cookbooks Cooking Up A Storm - The Teen Survival Cookbook - translated into 14 languages - Real Food Real Fast; Get Cooking; Sam Stern's Student Cookbook; Eat Vegetarian all published by Walker Books, UK. And Virgin to Veteran - How to Get Cooking with Confidence - published by Quadrille. This latest is due for publication in the USA, France, Sweden and the Netherlands in 2013.

Stern grew up as the youngest of five siblings in Yorkshire, England. Stern writes a regular blog, [http://www.samstern.co.uk samstern.co.uk], with free cooking advice and recipes. He has written for First News (newspaper)/First News, a children's newspaper. He wrote a monthly feature for 'Yorkshire Life Magazine' and has contributed to dozens of newspapers and magazines internationally. He has appeared on radio and TV in the US where he toured for 3 weeks and France. In addition to his dream of owning his own restaurant, he would like to open a cookery school and continue to persuade his generation to cook for themselves. Sam believes that 'you only eat so many meals in your life - so make each one special'. He is interested in all styles of cooking, loves Chinese food and hopes to visit China to learn how to cook it at source.

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