EVENTS LISTING RELEASE
Stefan Gates, author of In the Danger
Zone and presenter of BBC TWO’s Cooking in the Danger Zone, will be appearing
at Valvona and Crolla for a Literary Lunch.
When: Tuesday 1st
April, 11.45am for 12pm
Where: V&C Caffè Bar, Valvona
and Crolla, 19 Elm Row
Edinburgh EH7 4AA
Tickets: £25 The lunch will include a three
course lunch with a glass of V&C wine and a 10% discount on Stefan Gates’
books.
Contact: 0131 556 6066 or buy online at www.valvonacrolla.co.uk
‘Deceptively sharp, very funny and inquisitive’ – The Guardian
on Cooking in the Danger Zone
IN THE DANGER ZONE
Stefan Gates
Published by BBC Books, 7th
February 2008, £15.99
The companion book to
Stefan Gates’ critically acclaimed
Cooking in the Danger Zone,
which returns to BBC TWO for a third series on March 16th at 7pm
Award-winning writer
Stefan Gates has travelled to some of the world’s most dangerous places
investigating food and crisis for three series of BBC TV’s Cooking in the Danger Zone. He avoids the well-trodden journalistic
routes to live with ordinary people and find out how they cook, eat and survive
in extraordinary situations. Now the accompanying book In the Danger Zone presents Stefan’s dispatches from Afghanistan,
the Arctic Circle, China, Haiti and more. Combining travelogue with a food
writer’s eye for wild culinary experiences, it is an exciting, occasionally
reckless and often very funny chronicle of one man’s hunger for travel and
adventure.
In Chernobyl, Stefan
samples potentially radioactive food, forages for mushrooms which he discovers
are eight times too radioactive to eat, and investigates the Ukranian belief
that vodka can flush radiation from the body. In Uganda, Cameroon and Ethiopia,
he lives and eats in refugee camps, investigates the illegal trade in bushmeat
and uncovers the continuing food aid catastrophe.
Further east, Stefan
visits the dog farms of South Korea to explore a culinary culture that is often
reduced to a stereotype in the West. He battles with paranoid authorities to
get a glimpse of real rural life in China and understand the fragile
relationship between a Communist government and a consumer driven food culture.
In Beijing he tries out weird and wonderful traditional foods – shark’s lungs,
water buffalo penis, braised camel hump and scorpion kebabs. In Israel and
Palestine, amidst the conflict and confusion, Stefan lives with people from
both sides and discovers the conflicting claims to land, food and the origins
of hummus. He tastes tear gas at a riot, farms with ultra-orthodox Jewish
settlers, milks camels with the Bedouin and bakes bread with Arabs in Nablus.
In this book Stefan
shows that when you scratch the surface of the world’s great crises, food lurks
just beneath. In the Danger Zone is
a white-knuckle ride into some of the most dangerous, controversial and poverty
stricken places on Earth with an intrepid - and very hungry – author at the
helm.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stefan Gates is a writer and broadcaster who first
introduced the nation to the wilder side of gastronomy in BBC2’s Full on
Food. His book Gastronaut won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award and
was shortlisted for a Guild of Food Writers’ Award. He spent two years
travelling the world writing and filming Cooking in the Danger Zone.
Stefan has worked as a journalist, scriptwriter and TV producer. He lives in
London with his wife, two daughters and a fridge full of weird food.
Stefan
Gates is available for interview
For
further information, please contact Ed Griffiths at Ebury on
020 7840
8628 or email [email protected]
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