Stefan Gates

Stefan Gates is a food adventurer and award-winning writer/TV presenter renowned for his perceptive, witty and unconventional approach to food and cooking. He particularly loves extraordinary food. His food and travel books and TV series have won awards including Best TV Series at the Bologna Food on Film Festival, and his documentaries all have huge international sales, showing in over 30 countries.

Stefan wrote and presented Cooking in the Danger Zone (BBC2), travelling to the most difficult and dangerous places on earth to find out how people survive. It has been immensely popular both in the UK and internationally. He presented prime-time magazine show Full on Food (BBC2) and hundreds of episodes of studio show Food Uncut (UKTV Food). Gastronuts is a kids’ food adventure show Stefan developed for the BBC and the second series has just finished a hugely successful run on BBC1.

His food/travel series Feasts (BBC4) took him to the greatest feasts on earth, and has also sold across the world. Stefan has just finished E Numbers: An Edible Adventure (BBC2), an extraordinary mythbusting food science series and he has also written an accompanying book. Stefan chairs events, performs cookery demos, writes for newspapers and magazines and regularly appears on radio and TV shows as a guest.

Stefan has written five books, the latest of which is The Extraordinary Cookbook (Kyle Cathie) on unforgettable food adventures. He wrote the outrageous, eclectic Gastronaut (BBC Books), In the Danger Zone (BBC Books) and 101 Dishes to Eat Before You Die (Parragon). Stefan loves wild culinary quests and extraordinary food adventures
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TELEVISION
E Numbers: An Edible Adventure Writer, Presenter and Associate Producer, BBC2, July 2010
Gastronuts – Series 1 & 2  Writer/Presenter, BBC1/CBBC September 2008 & February 2010
Feasts     Writer  & Presenter, BBC4 May 2009
The Wright Stuff   Panellist, Channel 5, 2008-2010
Cooking in the Danger Zone   Three series, writer/presenter, BBC2 & BBC4, 2006, 2007 & 2008
Market Kitchen Guest - various episodes, UKTV Food 2007-2010
Food Uncut    Presenter, UKTV Food, 2006
Great Food Live    Presenter, UKTV Food, 2005
Full on Food     Writer/Presenter, BBC2, 2004

BOOKS
The Extraordinary Cookbook  Kyle Cathie, October 2010
Stefan Gates on E Numbers  Conran Octopus, 2010
101 Dishes to Eat Before You Die  Parragon 2008
Cooking in the Danger Zone  Random House 2008
Gastronaut    BBC Books, 2005

MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Sunday Times    Features 2008
Waitrose Food Illustrated  Features, 2006, 2007, 2008
Wanderlust    Columnist, Features 2008
Olive Magazine     Columnist, Reviews 2005, 2008
Guardian    Features 2007
Good Food Magazine   Features 2008
BBC News Online   Features 2006/07/08/09

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