Rick Stein's Cornwall

Rick Stein's Cornwall is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 40 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
Last broadcast:05/07/2025 at 11:35
Last episode
29:01


Rick Stein's Cornwall
After a wild swim at one of Cornwall’s picturesque hidden coves, Rick cooks a simple sea bass recipe, telling us all how to make the perfect homemade mayonnaise. In the far west of the county, on the Lands End peninsula, Rick introduces us to his niece, a modern artist, who expl...
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At Golitha Falls, where the River Fowey tumbles down to the sea, Rick meets Dawn French, Britain's queen of comedy who has made Cornwall her home. In the shadow of Devonport Dockyard, he boards the world's busiest chain ferry to cross the wide River Tamar, the ancient watery boundary between the counties of Devon and Cornw...


On the wild north Atlantic coast, Rick heads out to sea to go fishing for lobsters with celebrity chef Nathan Outlaw, and learns about a new conservation program for sustainable lobster fishing.


Rick explores one of Cornwall's hidden secrets, the stunning Fowey Estuary, joining his friend on a boat trip to learn about the history of the area and getting a view of the beautiful riverbank.


Rick journeys inland from the majestic Camel Estuary to one of Britain's finest vineyards, and later fires up the BBQ to cook his latest fish catch using a recipe inspired from a trip to Goa.


Rick Stein meets his good friend Barry Humphries, who fell in love with Cornwall in the 1960s when he escaped London to develop his now famous character, Dame Edna Everage. Barry talks about his friendship with Britain's favourite poet, John Betjeman, and asks Rick to review his homemade fishcakes. Rick also goes fishing f...
Season 3
28:11


Rick drops in on the fishing port of Boscastle and finds a fabulous seafood restaurant. Then, a trip to Cornwall's only organic mushroom farm inspires him to cook a stir fry with lion's mane mushrooms.


Rick's idea of bliss is to spend an afternoon gutting a freshly caught fish, then using it to make a dish of steamed seabass with garlic, ginger and spring onions.


Rick explores his passion for fresh and unusual salad leaves with a trip around an
organic market garden called Soul Farm, and is inspired to make a radicchio tart.


Rick goes fishing for his favourite oysters, makes a delicious fish soup and discovers the all-but-forgotten story of Cornwall's ancient capital, Lostwithiel.


After soaking up the ambiance at one of the UK's last live cattle markets in Truro, Rick's in the mood for steak and kidney pud, before setting sail out of Falmouth in a hand-built boat.


Rick visits Europe's largest tea plantation beside the Fal River in Cornwall, where he indulges in an afternoon tea of tea loaf and plum compote.


Rick visits an ancient apple orchard to learn the traditional way of making cider, cooks a chicken, leek and cider gratin, and delves into the rich history of the Cornish sea shanty.


Rick forages for mussels in his favourite rock pools, tours Bodmin Moor's dark past with his son Jack, and cooks a fool-proof souffle with artisan Cornish goat's cheese.
Season 1
29:03


The town of Launceston in east Cornwall is bypassed by many who visit the county, yet Rick discovers that it's home to an unusual superstition and a rare type of Norman castle. In the far west of Cornwall, Rick meets Graham Fitkin and Ruth Wall, two musicians who combine modern and traditional ways to make some extraordina...


Rick Stein meets young chef Tom Adams who runs Combeshead Farm, a leading field-to-fork restaurant in Cornwall. Here they grow and produce all of their own food, from sourdough bread to pork pies, as well as rearing a small heard of Mangalitsa pigs, a hairy, old-world breed which produces exquisite hams. Rick tries out a n...
Season 3
28:17


After a merry visit to a maker of botanical spirits, Rick adds a cheeky nip to his version of the Platinum Pud, the official pudding of our late Queen’s Jubilee.


Rick visits an ancient Cornish deer farm, then returns to his kitchen in Padstow to make a magnificent venison wellington.
Season 1
28:28


Deep in the Cornish countryside, Rick Stein meets an extraordinary family who are making some of the best Gouda cheese in Britain, from which he cooks a tortilla dish with caramelised apples, onions and Cornish Gouda. In the fishing village of Mevagissey, he discovers the origins of the sea shanty and the history of the pi...


Rick heads to the place where his passion for Cornwall began - his family home at Trevose Head on the north Cornish coast, where as a child he would go fishing with his father. He explores the wild yet beautiful landscape of the Land's End peninsula with the artist Kurt Jackson, before heading to the tranquillity of an her...