Rick Stein: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Rick Stein said elsewhere, not written here

March 1981 – preparing to open The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, for a new season.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2013 source ↗

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John Cooper Clarke English poet

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗

Greta Scacchi Italian-born actress

Now. When I see my two children enjoying each other's company.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2008 source ↗

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Well, I’m happiest on Martha’s Vineyard, between July 1 and Labor Day, riding my tricycle with Larry Bobo every afternoon and fishing with Buddy Vanderhoop. But I was happiest from my childhood through high school in Piedmont, West Virginia; it was magical. I was sorry when it was time to go off to college.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗

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