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- Rick visits his childhood summer house at Trevose Head then onto Kenidjack Valley Lands End.
- Rick Stein takes us to meet an extraordinary family who are making some of the best Gouda cheese in Britain. In the fishing village of Mevagissey, he discovers the origins of the sea shanty.
- Rick Stein meets young chef Tom Adams, who runs Combeshead Farm, a leading field-to-fork restaurant in Cornwall. Here, Rick tries out a new recipe - pork chops with a sloe berry sauce.
- Rick discovers an unusual superstition and a rare type of Norman castle in Launceston, before meeting musicians Graham Fitkin and Ruth Wall in the far west of Cornwall.
- Rick Stein meets his good friend, the actor and comedian Barry Humphries, who fell in love with Cornwall in the 1960s when he escaped London to develop his now famous character Dame Edna Everage.
- Rick journeys inland from the majestic Camel Estuary to one of Britain's finest vineyards, and later fires up the BBQ cook his latest fish catch using a recipe inspired from a trip to Goa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rick heads into the china clay pits to discover what is known locally as white gold, one of Cornwall's most important industries. Later, he cooks a simple sea bass and visits his niece at Land's End.
- Rick explores the postwar British modern art movement in the seaside town of St Ives, before fishing for a mullet at the Lizard Peninsula and learning about Cornwall's unusual emblem at Land's End.
- Rick travels across the Roseland Peninsula, starting with a spot thought to have been visited by Jesus, before visiting picturesque St Mawes and the attractive harbourside village of Mousehole.
- Rick is at Tintagel in Cornwall, the birthplace of the tale of King Arthur. Later, he explores the role of Methodism in Cornish history and meets a family who grow saffron.
- Rick explores the history of West Penwith, the most westerly place in mainland England. Later, he follows an ancient track in search of Cornwall's oldest building.
- As Rick's Cornish odyssey comes to an end, he takes a city break in Truro, where he discovers an unusual ghost story and tours the magnificent cathedral.
- Rick heads to the Scilly archipelago, the Cornish westernmost British islands, a subtropical paradise, yet only five are inhabited, only reached by boat and connected by 'water taxi'. He starts admiring the old-fashioned crab and lobster trap wicker making by local fisherman Jog, who hopes to reduce plastic waste. The climate is ideal for a world class plants collection, but the local bees are suffering from season difference and inbreeding, so a project is cross-breeding with a sturdier Cornish bee. Finally forts, manly from the Cromwellian era, and an old man's museum for the extraordinary numerous shipwrecks near the Scilly waters full of rocks, including a celebrated admiral's flagship and three more returning from a triumphant Mediterranean campaign. He celebrates with a super-sweet cake with butterscotch, using local honey.
- On the super quiet western Pembroke peninsula, Rick experiences the needs to drive back on one way-roads heading for Carn Euny, the county's best preserved archaeological site of the unique Cornish court yard house type, with an even more mysterious underground space. Rick enjoys the auction at Truro's weekly cattle market, one of only two surviving in Cornwall, also a major rural social gathering. It inspires him to bake a steak and kidney pier, then clear his head sailing along on a restored traditional wooden boat.
- Rick visits Europe's largest tea plantation bordering river Fal, inspired to bake a luxury tea bread based on dry fruits. he enjoys swimming at Penzande in he UK largest open air sea water swimming pool, a king George jubilee memorial. He finds how romantic Cornwall and its miserable labor conditions inspired many authors, including Charles Dickens including his famous 'A Christmas Carol'.
- After a quickly-made North African spicy omelet-like breakfast, Rick boards south of Padstowe the famous King Harry chain ferry across the scenic river Fall. It and a car ride bring him to a favorite organic, experimental non-profit farm, which grows without digging rare vegetables and herbs, ideal for original salads, especially neglected bitter flavors boosting immunity in winter. Rick reminisces about light-classical and film composer Malcolm Arnold in the pub where they became drinking buddies and at his Cornish home, where he kept an Oscar for Bridge On River Kwai song Colonel Bogey and wrote Cornish works, mainly the - Dances.
- Rick explores the natural resources that made now sleepy backwater Cornwall one of the richest corner of the British isles for a long time. Since Antiquity, mining has been extensive, from copper, tin and iron ore to coal for the Industrial Revolution, and various rarer minerals. It was a backbreaking, dangerous hard life for laborers, often under Dickensian conditions, but gathered fortunes for owners. Furthermore, many foods are grown or harvested from the sea.
- Rick present his beloved Cornwall as home to the arts. The romantically inspiring landscape attracts ever more artists, and from ever further, like a potter. Weather prevents joining the fishery fleet, but he serves sea bash jubilee style. Hvaing enjoyed it with beer, he hes asks his son Charlie, a wine expert, to select a well-paired one from the growing range in this booming English industry. Finaly a visit to Laucneston, home of favorite World War II poet Charles Causley, working class went to the Royal Navy, settled -living with his widowed mother- as primary teacher.
- Rick finishes near his home town Padstow, along the northern, perhaps most sightly Cornish coast, so poor in natural harbors that Elisabteh I had one painstakingly constructed in Boscastle, where sailing ships were hauled in by thick ropes, also used later at various points to launch rescues lines by rockets. By the surfing beaches, he visits wood-hidden seafood restaurant and minster which was built by a poet preacher. next Cornwall's first and only organic mushroom grower and the home of romance author Rosamunde Pilcher, many of whose novels set all over Cornall were filmed by German ZDF, 16 including a Padstow estate, among the beneficiaries of German language fan tourism.