Rick Stein’s Cornwall (BBC Two)

Food shows featuring celebrity chefs, street food stars and globe-trotting gourmands have never been more prolific. Our National Geographic Traveller Food team dished up a shortlist of favourites, and you chose chef and restaurateur Rick Stein as the person you’d most like to take a virtual food tour with. Tapping into the nation’s newly increased appetite for domestic travel, Stein reveals the Cornwall that he knows and loves, celebrating the food, history, music, art and culture of England’s southernmost county. We love this impressive 15-part series, too, for its determination to dig out the region’s lesserknown treasures and to champion its bumper crop of independent food producers.

FINALISTS

JAMES MARTIN’S ISLANDS TO HIGHLANDS (ITV) // GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)