Stefan Gates
Cooking in the Danger Zone (2006)
Season 1
Cooking in the Danger Zone is a documentary television series produced by the BBC and presented by Stefan Gates. In each film food writer Gates explores unusual food stories in some of the world’s more dangerous places. He uses food to explore and understand people’s culture and the challenges they face. He has eaten such obscure foods as rat in India, baby seal in the Arctic and radioactive soup in Chernobyl. Series three completed filming in October 2007 and it aired on BBC Two in March 2008.
Released July 18, 2006
Episode 60 min
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S1E1 - Afghanistan
This week food writer Stefan Gates cooks his way around Afghanistan, finding out how the country's reconstruction is going.
He samples the testicles of the legendary fat-tailed sheep, known to the locals as the Afghan Viagra; narrowly avoids being blown up by abandoned Soviet scud missiles; and has dinner with a former Taliban commander.
July 18, 2006, midnight
S1E2 - South Korea
Is there anything wrong with eating dogs?
Stefan visits a farm where over 2,000 dogs are raised for their meat.
He also picks up a few recipes from "Dr Dogmeat" and hears allegations that dogs are tortured to death.
But when it comes to the crunch, will he tuck in?
July 25, 2006, midnight
S1E3 - Uganda
In the third episode Stefan visits a camp for internally displaced people in war-torn Northern Uganda, to find out how people survive on meagre UN food rations.
The UN gives them just 60% of their daily needs, so where do they find the rest?
With rebels patrolling the nearby countryside, finding food is a matter of life and death.
Aug. 1, 2006, midnight
S1E4 - Tonga and Fiji
Why are some people in the South Pacific eating themselves to death?
In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth - 91% are overweight - and goes kickboxing with the princess who is determined to whip her subjects into shape.
In Fiji, he tries the local narcotic - cava - and slaughters a piglet for lunch.
Aug. 8, 2006, midnight
S1E5 - China
Finally, Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat.
He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint and samples the menu of a Beijing penis restaurant.
He also attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.
Aug. 15, 2006, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 780 min.
Released: July 18, 2006
Last Air Date: March 30, 2008, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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