One Taste of Wine and I Was in a World of Stars and Travel [Edition 2]

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Plymouth restaurateur Stephen Barrett has cracked a bottle with a film director who has won five Oscars and entertained one of the most famous Hollywood actresses.

He has mixed with, chatted to and fed and watered some of the leading figures in arts, entertainment and the world of food and drink in his 42-year career.

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One Taste of Wine and I Was in a World of Stars and Travel [Edition 2]

Appropriately, the story of his starry life in the kitchen, at the bar and in the vineyard, begins with a walk-on part for a thespian who helped set Stephen, then a young waiter, on the road to a career. Flashback to the late 1960s, and a fresh-faced Stephen is waiting tables in a St Ives restaurant.

"I didn't know my left from my right in a restaurant and I certainly didn't know anything about wine," he says.

"One of the first people I ever served asked for a bottle of Chablis.

"I fetched one and poured it for him and he said...

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