Cooking in the Danger Zone — Season 1, Episode 3: Uganda
Documentary • 60 min • 3 seasons, 13 episodes
Episode synopsis
In the third episode Stefan visits a camp for internally displaced people in war-torn Northern Uganda, to find out how people survive on meagre UN food rations. The UN gives them just 60% of their daily needs, so where do they find the rest? With rebels patrolling the nearby countryside, finding food is a matter of life and death.
About Cooking in the Danger Zone
Cooking in the Danger Zone is a documentary television series produced by the BBC and presented by Stefan Gates. In each film food writer Gates explores unusual food stories in some of the world’s more dangerous places. He uses food to explore and understand people’s culture and the challenges they face. He has eaten such obscure foods as rat in India, baby seal in the Arctic and radioactive soup in Chernobyl. Series three completed filming in October 2007 and it aired on BBC Two in March 2008.