Stefan Gates

I have the best job in the world: I'm a food adventurer. I know that sounds a bit odd, but there's really no other way of explaining it. I spend my life working to inspire fascination with food and I do it by cooking, exploring and occasionally blowing stuff up. Actually, I do quite a lot of blowing stuff up. I develop half of my own TV shows, and I've made some pretty wild series to get people excited by what they eat (Food Factory, Gastronuts, Incredible Edibles, Full on Food), and also lots of serious documentaries about hunger, conflict and anthropology (Cooking in the Danger Zone, Feasts). I love food science (Food Factory, E Numbers: An Edible Adventure) and I particularly enjoy staging big live food stunt shows. Basically, I like cooking food that will blow your mind. So, how do I earn my biscuits? Well, I work as a TV presenter/writer (I've made thirteen TV series of my own and often appear in other people's), an author (I've written six books), a writer for various magazines and newspapers and I perform and host live events. I do a fair amount of corporate work hosting conferences and helping companies come up with new food ideas, too. My hobbies are cooking, hanging out with my kids, cooking, windsurfing, cooking, travelling, cooking, cycling...you get the picture. Mostly, I like blowing stuff up, though.