Stefan Gates

Stefan is an award-winning quirkologist, exploring the bizarre and fascinating science lurking behind everyday life. He's written books about food, dogs, cats, insects and farts, and he's also a food adventurer, BBC TV presenter and writer who loves the extraordinary side of food. Together with his scruffy hound Blue, he wrote Dogology (the weird and wonderful science of dogs), and with his badly-named cat Cheeky he wrote Catology (the weird and wonderful science of cats).

His fridge is generally packed full of edible insects, odds and ends, and bizarre vegetables. His most horrible cooking experience was collecting vicious, biting red ants for an insect salad whilst filming 'Can Eating Insects Save the World?' (BBC4) in Thailand (although they were very tasty indeed). The worst thing he has ever eaten is 'igunak' - 12-month old rotten walrus made by the Inuit in Arctic Canada.

He has written and presented 22 TV series (mostly for the BBC) including Food Factory (BBC1), Cooking in the Danger Zone (BBC2), Harvest (BBC2), Full On Food (BBC2), Feasts (BBC4) as well as many CBBC series for children including Incredible Edibles, Disaster Chefs and Gastronuts.

Stefan has written twelve books (many of them winning awards), stages spectacular food & science stage shows at science festivals and STEM events, hosts Table Talk (a successful food innovation podcast) and appears on dozens of programmes from Newsnight to Blue Peter.

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