What a great job Stefan Gates has. First he travelled the world exploring how people under extraordinary circumstances feed themselves for his BBC series Cooking in the Danger Zone.
Then he travelled the world yet again looking into traditional feasts for his BBC series Feasts. How his wife, award winning food photographer Georgia Glynn-Smith copes with their two young children on her own is anyone’s guess!
Now, Stefan’s curious mind has been turned onto the subject of E Numbers and he is currently researching and filming a new 3 part series for the BBC which will seek to debunk all the myths surrounding the topic. I think so far he has found out that basically we can’t live without E numbers!
As if that’s not enough to do in a day, he’s also writing a book to go with it for Conran Octopus Publishing, so if you don’t catch the series, you can go buy the book. Like all his previous projects, it promises to be full of surprises!
His latest book is 101 Things To Eat Before You Die, published by Parragon Books Ltd and I for one intend to work my way through the entire thing.
Not a lot of people know that Stefan is much more than a presenter. He researches all his own material, writes the scripts and helps structure the programmes themselves. His background as a comedy producer at the BBC a few years back obviously helps with this, but it’s no small feat to be able to juggle all these roles at once.
Interestingly, his alter ego is as a presenter and writer of the hit series Gastronuts on CBBC, a food science series for kids, which has made him a bit of a star at his kids’ school (and probably elsewhere). For me, Stefan is the new face of intelligent TV, and here’s hoping there’s much more of him to be seen on our screens in the future.
Stefan Gates can currently be seen on his CBBC show, Gastronuts, on BBC1.