Cooking in the Danger Zone - Season 1

First aired: 7/18/2006 5 episodes

Episodes

1. Afghanistan

Aired: 7/18/2006

This week food writer Stefan Gates 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.

2. South Korea

Aired: 7/25/2006

Is there anything wrong with eating dogs? Stefan visits a farm where over 2,000 dogs are raised for their meat. He also picks up a few recipes from "Dr Dogmeat" and hears allegations that dogs are tortured to death. But when it comes to the crunch, will he tuck in?

3. Uganda

Aired: 8/1/2006

In the third episode Stefan visits a camp for internally displaced people 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, so where do they find the rest? With rebels patrolling the nearby countryside, finding food is a matter of life and death.

4. Tonga and Fiji

Aired: 8/8/2006

Why are some people in the South Pacific eating themselves to death? In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth - 91% are overweight - and goes kickboxing with the princess who is determined to whip her subjects into shape. In Fiji, he tries the local narcotic - cava - and slaughters a piglet for lunch.

5. China

Aired: 8/15/2006

Finally, Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat. He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint and samples the menu of a Beijing penis restaurant. He also attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.