Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Stefan Gates Does it Again!
Cooking in the danger zone.
Stefan took us to Chernobyl in the Ukraine; he entered the exclusion zone. Despite high levels of radio activity, the flora and fauna seems to be flourishing. The high levels of radiation did not deter people from living in the zone. There was an old man on a bicycle with an axe on board, ready for one of the wild boars that he intends to take home for him. Why Stefan asked him whether he eats the boars that he kills, the old man replied "why not!" giving a thumbs up. He then met Anna, a fiesty old lady, who cooked him and et al borscht, potato and noodle soup. The entire crew were treated to this lunch, the driver downed a raw egg straight from the shell. In spite of the prohibition not to eat anything, Stefan ate the soup and downed a glass of home made plum brandy. Stefan asked the old lady why she returned to her land after evacuation, she said that she lived in a place where the earth was black and that your feet would sink in the mud - she could not grow anything.
Stefan's humanity and easygoingness is a shining example of attitude who is around twenty years my junior. I liked this programme, I liked the attitude. I liked the people whom he encountered, they seemed to be like those rustic characters that one finds in Tolstoy's books.
Great stuff.
Stefan took us to Chernobyl in the Ukraine; he entered the exclusion zone. Despite high levels of radio activity, the flora and fauna seems to be flourishing. The high levels of radiation did not deter people from living in the zone. There was an old man on a bicycle with an axe on board, ready for one of the wild boars that he intends to take home for him. Why Stefan asked him whether he eats the boars that he kills, the old man replied "why not!" giving a thumbs up. He then met Anna, a fiesty old lady, who cooked him and et al borscht, potato and noodle soup. The entire crew were treated to this lunch, the driver downed a raw egg straight from the shell. In spite of the prohibition not to eat anything, Stefan ate the soup and downed a glass of home made plum brandy. Stefan asked the old lady why she returned to her land after evacuation, she said that she lived in a place where the earth was black and that your feet would sink in the mud - she could not grow anything.
Stefan's humanity and easygoingness is a shining example of attitude who is around twenty years my junior. I liked this programme, I liked the attitude. I liked the people whom he encountered, they seemed to be like those rustic characters that one finds in Tolstoy's books.
Great stuff.
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