Cooking in the Danger Zone
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200660 minEnded

Cooking in the Danger Zone

Network:BBC Four

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S03E03 - "Israel and the West Bank"

Aired on Mar 30, 2008, 11:00 AM

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Food writer Stefan Gates explores how ordinary people survive in some of the world's most dangerous and difficult places in the world.

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
July 18, 2006
Ended
March 30, 2008
Schedule
Sunday at 12:00 AM

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Episodes (3 Seasons · 13 Episodes)

Cameroon and Ethiopia

Food writer Stefan Gates investigates the appetite for bushmeat that's wiping out endangered species in Cameroon, and the shocking aid crisis in Ethiopia, where nearly twice as many people are now hungry as during the famines of the 80s. He eats civet cat, porcupine, cane rat, palm weevils, fresh goat's blood and WFP aid rations as he meets ordinary people leading extraordinary lives, and he nearly causes riots in both countries along the way.

Mar 16, 2008

60 min

Mexico and Haiti

Food writer Stefan Gates investigates how the US influences the way people eat and live in Haiti and Mexico. Free trade means that cheap US food has flooded both countries, forcing the collapse of agriculture in Haiti and starting a revolution over food and land in Mexico. Stefan tries mud cake, moonshine, sacrificial blood, ant larvae and fly eggs, and meets rebels, voodoo priests and white witches: all of them ordinary people leading extraordinary lives.

Mar 23, 2008

60 min

Israel and the West Bank

Stefan visits Israel and the West Bank. He discovers that the conflict between Jews and Arabs is rooted in land, but expressed in food. He stays with ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers and their Arab neighbours. He tastes hummus, kosher food and camel's milk.

Mar 30, 2008

60 min

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