Rick Stein's Cornwall

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Rick Stein's Cornwall

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 ...

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Season 1
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
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
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...
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.
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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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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 goes fishing for his favourite oysters, makes a delicious fish soup and discovers the all-but-forgotten story of Cornwall's ancient capital, Lostwithiel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 2
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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 of the Cornish pasty and shows us how to c...
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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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