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.
Q & A with Stefan Gates
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.
Sneak Peek of Episode 1 - India
Despite the caste system being illegal in India, in many rural areas it is still rife. Stefan Gates travels to one of the poorest and most corrupt areas of India, Bihar, where the rural Dalits are locked in a system of poverty and disadvantage. There he engages with one of the lowest sub-sections of the Dalits, the Musahars, roughly translated as "rat eaters".
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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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