Stefan Gates

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Stefan Gates is a British food writer and television presenter.

After leaving University, Stefan spent the first 16 years of his working life in film and TV - the jobs were varied and included: Assistant Director, scriptwriter, director and producer, finally ending up in BBC Comedy as a development producer. Due to his fascination with unusual foods he started writing about them and this led to him becoming a presenter and co-writer on the BBC2 series Full On Food in the Winter of 2004.

He currently presents the food programme Cooking in the Danger Zone which is now on its second series (a third series is due to be aired in the Summer/Autumn of 2007). In each episode of the series Stefan visits crisis zones around the world where the living isn't easy and the food is unusual. The series are first shown on BBC4 and series one and two are due to be repeated on BBC2 starting in May 2007.

He has written one book, Gastronaut, published in hardback in 2005 and paperback in 2006. A book is also planned as a companion to the TV series Cooking in the Danger Zone which is due out when series three is aired.