Feasts ep03

NFO:
Wed 3 Jun 2009 21:00 BBC Four

Series in which food writer and presenter Stefan Gates immerses himself in some of the
most extraordinary feasts and festivals on earth. By joining ordinary people in these
strange and wonderful distillations of their culture and beliefs, he hopes to gain a
revelatory insight into how the world thinks and feels.

Stefan goes on a wild emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride, starting with a
teenage girl's bizarre coming-of-age ceremony and ending with the Day of the Dead, a
cacophonous cross-cultural festival of the senses during which Mexicans truly believe
that their loved ones come back from the dead for three days every year to spend the day
with them.

In Oaxaca, he is dressed up as a dead woman and made to dance like a lunatic at the head
of a procession as it makes its way through town. He is turned into an emotional wreck
at the moment the dead return, bursting into tears as Dias de los Muertos makes him
experience grief and loss for the first time.

But then in the next breath, the family Stefan is living with teach him to celebrate and
laugh at death. They turn his views on their head, allowing him to embrace and conquer
his fear of death through an extraordinary sensual onslaught of food, flowers, songs and
smells. The sight of the graveyards overflowing with flowers and mescal-drinking
revellers is a truly life-changing experience.

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