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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.”Afghanistan”Stefan 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”Stefan’s in South Korea to find out whether there’s anything wrong with eating dogs. 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”July 18, 2006Gates visits refugee camps 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.[edit]”Fiji and Tonga”Gates visits the South Pacific to find out why they are over-eating. In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth (91% are overweight). In Fiji, he tries the local inebriant kava kava and slaughters a piglet for lunch.”China”July 25, 2006Gates 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 restaurant, and attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China’s poverty-stricken farmers.