# Cooking in the Danger Zone > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cooking_in_the_Danger_Zone > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cooking_in_the_Danger_Zone.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_in_the_Danger_Zone > Source revision: 1345983066 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British television series This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Cooking in the Danger Zone" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Cooking in the Danger Zone Genre Documentary Presented by Stefan Gates No. of series 3 Original release Network BBC Two Release March 2008 (2008-03) ***Cooking in the Danger Zone*** is a documentary television series produced by the [BBC](/source/BBC) and presented by [Stefan Gates](/source/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](/source/India), baby seal in the [Arctic](/source/Arctic) and radioactive soup in [Chernobyl](/source/Chernobyl). Series three completed filming in October 2007 and it aired on [BBC Two](/source/BBC_Two) in March 2008. ## Episodes ### Series One #### Afghanistan Stefan cooks his way around [Afghanistan](/source/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](/source/Viagra)"; narrowly avoids being blown up by abandoned [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) [Scud](/source/Scud) missiles; and has dinner with a former [Taliban](/source/Taliban) commander. #### South Korea Stefan's in [South Korea](/source/South_Korea) to find out whether there's anything wrong with [eating dogs](/source/Dog_meat). He visits a farm where over 2000 dogs are raised for their meat, picks up a few recipes from "Dr Dogmeat", and hears allegations that dogs are tortured to death. #### Uganda 18 July 2006 Gates visits refugee camps in war-torn Northern [Uganda](/source/Uganda), to find out how people survive on meagre [UN](/source/UN) food rations. The UN gives them just 60% of their daily needs. #### Fiji and Tonga Gates visits the [South Pacific](/source/Oceania) to find out why they are over-eating. In [Tonga](/source/Tonga) he finds the fattest people on earth (91% are overweight). In [Fiji](/source/Fiji), he tries the local inebriant [kava kava](/source/Kava) and slaughters a piglet for lunch. #### China 25 July 2006 Gates finds how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat. He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint, samples the menu of a [Beijing](/source/Beijing) restaurant, and attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers. ### Series Two #### Chernobyl Gates visits the site of the [world's worst ever nuclear disaster](/source/Chernobyl_disaster) to discover how people have survived in its aftermath. Inside the [Exclusion Zone](/source/Exclusion_Zone), deemed too dangerous to live in, he finds, amongst the [ghost towns](/source/Ghost_town), a handful of people who have moved back in illegally and live on dangerously [contaminated land](/source/Contaminated_land). #### Arctic Gates visits the [Arctic Circle](/source/Arctic_Circle) to spend time with the [Inuit](/source/Inuit) living on some of the harshest terrain in the world. He is taken on a seal hunt and tried the local delicacy: eighteen-month-old rotten [walrus](/source/Walrus). #### India Gates visits the state of [Bihar](/source/Bihar), [India](/source/India)'s poorest state to meet the [Dalits](/source/Dalit), or "Untouchables". These are the lowest group in the [Indian caste system](/source/Indian_caste_system). He helps a dalit girl make [dung](/source/Feces) [cakes](/source/Cake) for fuel. Gates joins them as they are about to tuck into one of their few sources of protein: roasted rat which they catch themselves. Otherwise they survive on rice and little else. He then meets the private militia of the landowners in Bihar, who have hired the men to protect their properties from the dalit labourers, who they accuse of stealing from them in communist agitations. Gates then travels west across India by rail towards [Mumbai](/source/Mumbai), where he talks to people living in the slums of Mumbai, particularly Biharis who have immigrated in an attempt to make a better living. He talks to a dalit [dabawalla](/source/Dabawalla), a person who carries lunches from people's homes to their offices at midday. Indians prefer their lunches to be freshly cooked and home-made by their wife or mother, thus creating such an occupation. #### Venezuela Gates finds a country divided between rich and poor and the country's president, [Hugo Chávez](/source/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez), using food handouts as part of his socialist revolution. He helps out in one of the [soup kitchens](/source/Soup_kitchen) providing food to the poor and he also visits a subsidized food shop where the food is quickly running out much to the anger of those waiting in line. He then travels into the hinterland where he finds the ranch owners furious as Chávez has encouraged the poor to take some of their land and farm it themselves. #### Burma Gates spends two weeks in the jungle with the [Karen people](/source/Karen_people) who are being hunted by the Burmese army who are starving them out of their villages. [Land mines](/source/Land_mine) are placed in the fields making it too dangerous to harvest any crops. ### Series Three #### Cameroon and Ethiopia #### Haiti and Mexico #### Israel and the West Bank Gates finds that in Israel and the West Bank, the conflict is rooted in land and expressed in food. ## External links - [*Cooking in the Danger Zone*](https://www.bbc.co.uk/cookinginthedangerzone) at [BBC Online](/source/BBC_Online) - [*Cooking in the Danger Zone*](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t86r) at [BBC Online](/source/BBC_Online) - [Stefan Gates' website](http://www.thegastronaut.com/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Cooking in the Danger Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_in_the_Danger_Zone) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_in_the_Danger_Zone?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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