One of the most immediate rewards of visiting another culture is meeting the people and getting to know what makes them tick

And that includes opening yourself up to their food specialties.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves coming up in the hour ahead, we're joined by two travel experts who run their own gastronomic tour company in Tuscany.

Jamie Blair Gould was raised in Britain and his wife Nina Derex grew up in Belgium,

but they relocated to Lucca in Tuscany a few years ago to

raise their family.

So from Britain to Belgium to Bella Italia, you can expect to get clued in on the culinary

fines for a wide swath of Europe.

For instance, we eat a lot of hair.

And later in the hour, travel writer David Farley tells us how he used food as a framework

for a recent trip to Vietnam. And he tells us what makes today's Saigon

sizzle.

I was so grateful that I just said, I'm going to go sit down in this alleyway with all these

Vietnamese men and eat whatever they're eating and the food was just incredible.

We're enjoying the world one taste treat at a time.

It's Travel with Rick Steeves.

Hi I'm Rick Steeves.

David Farley followed one of New York's hot young chefs back to his homeland of Vietnam.

He did this to discover how Saigon is turned into a foodie's Mecca.

He'll join us in a bit to talk about this and tell us what kind of welcome he had as an American 35 years after what they call the American war ended.

That's a little later in the hour ahead.

Let's start today's edition of Travel with Rick Steeves

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