Culinary performer, presenter, broadcaster and author, Stefan Gates is a highly entertaining and unique act that can make a statement at a whole variety of corporate events and functions. Stefan combines science and food to create live shows that have audiences mesmerised with his extensive knowledge and fun demonstrations. Throughout his early career, Gates worked majoritively in the film industry in roles including assistant director, scriptwriter and producer. It was when he began working as a BBC Comedy development producer that he discovered his love for unusual food combinations and began documenting his findings. He eventually became the co-writer on the BBC Two series Full on Food in 2004.
Stefan has made several other appearances on food-related television programmes throughout his career. He presented for the internationally acclaimed, Cooking in the Danger Zone where he travelled to dangerous countries in order to taste test their unusual food habits before becoming a children’s presenter for the show Gastronauts. He also wrote and starred in Feasts, presented BBC Two’s E Numbers: An Edible Adventure and BBC One’s Food Factory.
As a writer, Gates has written a total of eight highly commended books. 101 Dishes to Eat Before You Die, The Extraordinary Cookbook and most recently, Fartology: The Extraordinary Science Behind the Humble Fart, are all in keeping with his love for scientific experiments in the kitchen and have won him several awards including the Best Food Literature Book at the 2005 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
Most recently, he has made several appearances on Five’s The Wright Stuff, BBC Two’s Something for the Weekend and Good Food Channel’s Market Kitchen. He has also gone onto present his own documentary series for BBC Radio 4 which was titled Stefan Gates’ Cover Story. Additionally, he set up his own YouTube channel entitled Gastronuaut TV in 2014 to create another outlet where can demonstrate his crazy and insanely interesting skill within science and culinary. The channel has over 3.75 thousand subscribers and more than 70 thousand views. With extreme energy, passion and excitement, Stefan Gates can bring the most positive and unique entertainment to corporate events of any variety. With live demonstrations and workshops, he can engage even the largest of audiences to leave them with an incredible lasting impression on your evening.
When he's at corporate events, Stefan is known to discuss the following topics:
- Culinary
- The Science Behind Food
- Live Demonstrations
"His enthusiasm is truly infectious! Explosive educational entertainment fully engaging the audience and he's an absolute pleasure to work with."
- Lucinda, Cambridge Science Festival Co-ordinator
"Stefan has been hugely popular at The Cheltenham Science Festival. His show has sold out two years in a row! Full of food, fun, science and brilliance!"
- Gina, Cheltenham Science Festival Manager
"How do you make food more interesting? Bring on Stefan Gates. With his repertoire of quirky, inventive and humorous demonstrations, Stefan's performances turn food science into food theatre. The Pied Piper meets Professor Branstrawm."
- Martin, Abergavenny Food Festival Director
How to hire Stefan Gates
Contact the Champions Speakers Agency to provisionally enquire about hiring Stefan Gates for your next event, today. To get in touch, simply call an official booking agent on 0207 1010 553 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
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