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Description
Award-winning food writer Stefan Gates has traveled the world to investigate how people cook, eat and survive in extreme conditions for the acclaimed BBC television series "Cooking in the Danger Zone". He drank radioactive wine with babushkas in Chernobyl, ate fat-tailed sheep with Taliban warlords in Afghanistan, yak's penis with Chinese Communists, civet cat with the Karen rebels deep in the Burmese jungle and rotting walrus with the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. In this book, Stefan takes us on an extraordinary personal journey as he tries to understand a world in crisis, and meets people caught up in war, poverty and environmental disasters. This behind-the-scenes account is hugely entertaining and thought provoking, blending war and food, ethics and emotions, comedy and tragedy.
Prizes
Shortlisted for Guild of Food Writers Awards: Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel 2009.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781846072642 |
| ISBN10 | 1846072646 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 299 g |
| Product Dimensions | 156 x 36 x 238 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | BBC Books |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
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Author's Bio
Stefan Gates is a writer and broadcaster. In 2004, as a presenter and writer of the BBC2 series Full on Food, Stefan introduced the nation to the wilder side of gastronomy. His book Gastronaut, published the following year, won the Gormand World Cookbook Award for best Food Literature Book, as well as being shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Award. He's worked as a TV director, scriptwriter and comedy producer, but his strangest job was appearing naked on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy at the age of four.