Cooking in the Danger Zone - Episode Guide

In Afghanistan, Stefan meets an ex-Taliban commander and samples local lamb, lentils, bread and US army rations.

Stefan visits South Korea to find out if there is really anything wrong with eating dogs.

In Uganda, Stefan visits refugee camps in the war-torn north of the country to discover how people survive on meagre UN food rations.

Stefan visits the South Pacific to find out why people are eating themselves to obesity and death with rich, meaty food.

In China, Stefan samples a penis restaurant and attempts to shake off his Communist minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.

Stefan visits Chernobyl, site of the worst ever nuclear disaster, to discover how people have survived in its aftermath. Inside the exclusion zone, deemed too dangerous to live in, he finds a handful of people who have moved back in illegally and live on contaminated land. When a woman prepares a meal from produce grown in her own garden, will Stefan tuck in to a potentially radioactive dinner?

Stefan heads north to spend time with the Inuit living on some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. They take Stefan on a seal hunt, but will he actually be prepared to kill and eat a baby seal?

There is also the local delicacy of 18-month-old rotten walrus to be tried. But their journey takes a dangerous turn when sailing through icy waters, as the icebergs close in.

Stefan visits India's poorest area to meet the Dalit, or Untouchables, the lowest of the low in the Indian caste system. Gates joins them as they are about to tuck into one of their few sources of protein, roasted rat which they catch themselves. Otherwise they survive on rice and little else, and live in constant fear of being attacked as Gates discovers when he meets members of a secretive upper caste army.

Stefan visits Venezuela, in the midst of a socialist revolution led by radical president Hugo Chavez. He arrives the day after Chavez is re-elected and finds a country split down the middle, locked in a battle between rich and poor.

During the trip Stefan cooks in the slums' soups kitchens, investigates food shortages in subsidised shops, and meets one of the richest men in the country.

Stefan gets himself smuggled into the jungle of eastern Burma where the Karen people are fighting a vicious guerrillawar with the Burmese army. He goes on patrol with a Karen rebel group to check on isolated villages that are under constant threat of attack from the Burmese army. The patrol must survive on a little rice and what they can catch in the jungle, even if that means eating endangered animals.

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.

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.

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.