Rick Stein's Cornwall

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Season 2
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In this his last programme of the series, Rick takes us to the Rame Peninsula. Far from the traditional tourist track this part of Cornwall is famed for its cliffs and beaches. It’s also where he meets a beachcomber who has found some remarkable objects washed up on the shore. In mining country, Rick explores the history o...
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In the town of Looe, Rick discovers a time when the Cornish were taken as slaves by Barbary Pirates. He joins one of the last fishing boats in St Mawes and uses the catch of Lemon Sole to make a delicious warm salad. In Newlyn he meets with two entrepreneur chefs who are cooking mackerel to perfection.
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On the banks of the River Tamar, Rick visits a little-known mausoleum with a rather macabre story.
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Following in the footsteps of Turner, one of Britain's most loved artists, Rick discovers how much the Cornish landscape influenced his work.
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Rick joins a team diving for Razor Clams, which he takes back to the kitchen to make a quick but tasty dish of grilled Shangurro Clams.
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In our fields and hedgerows are plants that are delicious, and plants that are deadly, as Rick learns from a professional forager who takes him on a tour around the beautiful Camel Estuary.
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Rick’s in Falmouth to discover that far from being that ‘bit on the end of Britain’, Cornwall used to be at the very heart of our Empire’s communication system and is still very much a working port today.
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Could you eat 700 samples of cheese a week? On a visit to a dairy, Rick meets a man who is paid to do just that.
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Rick boards the ferry in Penzance to take him to The Isles of Scilly, a group of islands which were once part of Cornwall.
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Cornish King Crab is on the menu for Rick tonight as he heads out of Newquay to catch and cook this tasty crustacean.
Season 3
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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.
Season 2
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Following in the footsteps of one of his literary heroes, Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of one of Britain's best loved writers, Thomas Hardy, and his little-known love affair with a Cornishwoman.
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Cornwall has more than its fair share of folktales. Perhaps the most famous is found near Land’s End, where Rick recounts the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor.
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Rick meets Springwatch presenter and biologist Gillian Burke who takes Rick on a walk through a rare habitat called an Atlantic Temperate Rainforest, on the banks of the Helford River.
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Rick Stein travels to St Ives to tell us about one of Britain’s little-known artists, Alfred Wallis. In the shadow of Bodmin Moor Rick visits a very rare collection of Medieval stained-glass windows in the church of St Neot.
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Rick Stein launches his new series about his home county of Cornwall with a trip back in time to his early days running a nightclub in Padstow.
Season 3
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rick visits an ancient Cornish deer farm, then returns to his kitchen in Padstow to make a magnificent venison wellington.
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