Rick travels to 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 landscape of the Land's End peninsula with Kurt Jackson.

Rick Stein meets a family who make some of the best gouda cheese in Britain, deciding to cook a tortilla dish with caramelised apples, onions and Cornish gouda.

Rick meets young chef Tom Adams, who runs Combeshead Farm, a leading field-to-fork restaurant in Cornwall. They grow all of their own food, from sourdough bread to pork pies, as well as rearing a small heard of Mangalitsa pigs.

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.

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 famous character, Dame Edna Everage, with near-disastrous consequences.

Rick journeys inland from the majestic Camel Estuary to one of Britain's finest vineyards, where he joins in harvesting the grapes and discovers the Cornish weather is perfect for making some of the best wine in the country.