Cooking in the Danger Zone
TV series
Cooking in the Danger Zone
2006–2008, English, on BBC Two.
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.
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Status
- Ended in 2008
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Latest episode
S3 E3: Israel and the West Bank
Aired 30 March 2008
Seasons 3
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Details
- First aired
- 18 July 2006
- Last aired
- 30 March 2008
- Network
- BBC Two
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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Cooking in the Danger Zone has 3 seasons and 13 episodes, about 60 minutes each.
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