Rick Stein's Cornwall

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Rick Stein's Cornwall

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

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Season 3
28:46
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.
28:48
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.
28:44
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.
27:54
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.
28:50
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
28:52
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...
28:41
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.
On the banks of the River Tamar, Rick visits a little-known mausoleum with a rather macabre story.
Following in the footsteps of Turner, one of Britain's most loved artists, Rick discovers how much the Cornish landscape influenced his work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rick boards the ferry in Penzance to take him to The Isles of Scilly, a group of islands which were once part of Cornwall.
Cornish King Crab is on the menu for Rick tonight as he heads out of Newquay to catch and cook this tasty crustacean.
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 Cornish woman.
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.
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.
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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