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.
Best Episodes of Cooking in the Danger Zone
Uganda
S1 Ep3
2.0
1st Aug 2006
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.
Worst Episodes of Cooking in the Danger Zone
Afghanistan
S1 Ep1
1.3
18th Jul 2006
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.
Cooking in the Danger Zone Episode Guide
Afghanistan
S1 Ep1
1.3
18th Jul 2006
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.
South Korea
S1 Ep2
2.0
25th Jul 2006
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?
Uganda
S1 Ep3
2.0
1st Aug 2006
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.
Tonga and Fiji
S1 Ep4
8th Aug 2006
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.
China
S1 Ep5
15th Aug 2006
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.
