Cooking in the Dangerzone

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Burma

19 November 2009 | 0:00 - By Cooking in the Dangerzone

Stefan encounters severe malnutrition in the refugee camps of Burma and samples white butterfly larvae, civet cat and endangered loris.


Day 1 & 2
Thailand, on the border with Burma. I was on my way into rebel Karen-held territory in Eastern Burma to investigate how the Burmese government used food as a weapon to suppress the Karen people. As I stood in the pitch-black waiting for our rebel contact to collect me, all I could think was: ‘What the hell am I doing? I’m a speccy, weedy food writer with two young kids and I’m about to be smuggled into rebel-held territory in a war zone.'

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Sneak Peek of Episode 3: Burma

13 November 2009 | 0:00 - By Cooking in the Dangerzone

Stefan continues his culinary journey around the world with his most dangerous trip yet - smuggling himself into the jungles of eastern Burma, where the Karen people are fighting a vicious guerrilla war with the Burmese army.

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Venezuela

12 November 2009 | 0:00 - By Cooking in the Dangerzone

Stefan Gates travelled to Venezuela to find out if food was being used as a political tool, but instead gained an unexpected insight into the newly elected president's love life.


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We arrived in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, a couple of days after the presidential elections. Venezuela is ruled by the popular but increasingly autocratic president Hugo Chavez, a thorn in the side of President Bush (whom Chavez loves to bait despite the fact that the US is one of Venezuela’s biggest customers for its main source of income: oil). Venezuela is the world’s fifth largest exporter of oil.

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India

05 November 2009 | 0:00 - By Cooking in the Dangerzone

Stefan Gates made dung cakes, ate rats and encountered heartbreaking poverty in the world's second most populous country. Read all about it here.


Day 1
Oh, the heady, intoxicating swirl of India – the kaleidoscopic colours, the swirling soup of people in their poverty and beauty, the indomitable progress, the turning of a new progressive, democratic leaf, the emerging wealth and… and the utter, utter bollocks that’s written about the world’s second most populous country.

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Q & A with Stefan Gates

03 November 2009 | 0:00 - By Cooking in the Dangerzone

Stefan Gates is the slightly mad host of the off-beat food/travel series Cooking in the Dangerzone, which explores unusual food stories in some of the world’s most dangerous places. Here Stefan tells us about the things he ate in the places he's been.


Did you encounter any strange food customs during your travels? Burping, farting, communal hand-washing, sacrifice – there’s a lot to learn about how people eat around the world. Weirdest was in Haiti where the rice farmers’ wives feed their husbands. It’s oddly childish, yet tinged with eroticism at the same time.

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About this Blog

During series two of Cooking in the Dangerzone, we once again follow Stefan Gates as he explores unusual food stories in some of the world’s most dangerous places.

Cooking in the Dangerzone Stefan Gates writes and presents TV programmes about food adventures, often with an extraordinary angle to them, and often with a fair dose of travel and current affairs thrown in. He's a man who's obsessed with the emotional, moral and mortal significance of what we eat.

 
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