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.
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. 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 succesful 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. Stefan loves wild culinary quests and extraordinary food adventures.