Sampling dishes such as fat-tailed sheep's testicles and picking up recipes from "Dr Dogmeat", food writer Stefan Gates explores some of the most controversial food issues in the world.
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AFGHANISTAN
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Monday 22 January 2007
2230 GMT on BBC Four
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This week food writer Stefan Gates cooks his way around Afghanistan, finding out how the country's reconstruction is going.
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.
SOUTH KOREA
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Monday 29 January 2007 (tbc)
2230 GMT on BBC Four
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Is there anything wrong with eating dogs?
Stefan visits a farm where over 2,000 dogs are raised for their meat.
He also picks up a few recipes from "Dr Dogmeat" and hears allegations that dogs are tortured to death.
But when it comes to the crunch, will he tuck in?
UGANDA
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Monday 5 February 2007 (tbc)
2230 GMT on BBC Four
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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.
TONGA AND FIJI
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Monday 12 February 2007 (tbc)
2230 GMT on BBC Four
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Why are some people in the South Pacific eating themselves to death?
In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth - 91% are overweight - and goes kickboxing with the princess who is determined to whip her subjects into shape.
In Fiji, he tries the local narcotic - cava - and slaughters a piglet for lunch.
CHINA
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Monday 19 February 2007 (tbc)
2230 GMT on BBC Four
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Finally, Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat.
He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint and samples the menu of a Beijing penis restaurant.
He also attempts to shake off his Communist party minders to talk to one of China's poverty-stricken farmers.
Executive producer: Will Daws
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