Cooking in the Danger Zone is a documentary television series produced by the BBC and presented by Stefan Gates.
He samples the testicles of the legendary fat-tailed sheep, known to the locals as the "Afghan Viagra"; narrowly avoids being blown up by abandoned Soviet Scud missiles; and has dinner with a former Taliban commander.
18 July 2006 Gates visits refugee camps in war-torn Northern Uganda, to find out how people survive on meagre UN food rations.
He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint, samples the menu of a Beijing restaurant, and attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.
Gates visits the site of the world's worst ever nuclear disaster to discover how people have survived in its aftermath.
He then meets the private militia of the landowners in Bihar, who have hired the men to protect their properties from the dalit labourers, who they accuse of stealing from them in communist agitations.
He then travels into the hinterland where he finds the ranch owners furious as Chávez has encouraged the poor to take some of their land and farm it themselves.