Rick Stein's Food Heroes

Rick admires the quality produce on offer at the English Market in Cork, Ireland. He is inspired to cook corned beef with potatoes, carrots and cabbage.

After visiting an award-winning herb grower, Rick uses fresh ingredients to make a delicious pork terrine. And, he samples oatcakes in Stoke-on-Trent.

Rick gathers butchers from Smithfield Market to see whether they can taste the difference between organic and non-organic beef. Plus, he cooks beef stroganoff.

Rick and Chalky go fishing for large langoustines on Loch Torridon. And, he travels to the Cotswolds to explore a farm that grows enormous cooking apples.

Rick goes reef fishing for sea bass in the Channel Island of Jersey, before enjoying a beach barbecue. Later, he goes pheasant shooting in Cornwall.

Rick Stein is in Cornwall to meet a fish merchant who has helped make pilchards popular again. Plus, he visits a successful food festival in Wales.

Rick travels to Ayrshire to meet the butchers behind a world-famous bacon. Plus, he reveals his recipe for lamb koftas with yoghurt and salad.

Lord Coke invites Rick and Chalky to go partridge shooting in Norfolk. Plus, Rick rediscovers traditional favourites like Kentish cobnuts and quinces.

A trip to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, inspires Rick to cook delicious dishes with oysters and langoustines. Plus, he spends time with a deer farmer.

On his gastronomic tour of Britain, Rick samples air-dried ham and a steak and seaweed pie. Plus, he cooks freshly caught flounder from South Wales.

Rick prepares pan-fried John Dory with boulangère potatoes and mushrooms. Later, he visits a farmer who has bounced back from the foot-and-mouth crisis.