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.
Air Date: 2006-07-18
This week food writer Stefan Gates cooks his way around Afghanistan, finding out how the country's reconstruction is ...
Air Date: 2006-07-25
Is there anything wrong with eating dogs? Stefan visits a farm where over 2,000 dogs are raised for their meat. He ...
Air Date: 2006-08-01
In the third episode Stefan visits a camp for internally displaced people in war-torn Northern Uganda, to find out ho...
Air Date: 2006-08-08
Why are some people in the South Pacific eating themselves to death? In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth -...
Air Date: 2006-08-15
Finally, Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat. He...