Are you hungry? We're about to explore why Italy is for so many people the most

delitioso place on earth. Hi I'm Rick Steve's. For lunch, a gourmet tour guide

based in Luca recommends how to assemble the perfect Tuscan picnic.

You might start with the different local hands.

Why not have a slice or two of Palmer, a slice of two of San Danielle Le

for instance, and a slice of two of Tuscan Ham?

Jamie Blair Gould helps you go beyond the hand. left for instance and a slice of two of Tuscanyam.

Jamie Blair Gould helps you go beyond the handful of items you might recognize at the

deli counters in Italy to help assemble one of the best picnics of your life,

complete with a view of the Tuscan countryside.

And Italian food devotee, Fred Plotkin, clues us Herrid Americans,

into the ways Italians turn dinner into a life-affirming hour, or two or three.

And you come away from it thinking,

that was time well spent, and oh yes,

we had some of the best food on earth.

Spend the next hour with us as we learn how to make any meal a real

occasion. Italian style. It's Travel with Rick Steeves.

Bonjorno, I'm Rick Steeves. Today's travel with Rick Steeves might make you hungry, not only for the

foods you'll find in Italy, but for the whole Italian experience of bringing a real sense of

occasion to any meal. An Epicurean tour guide from Tuscany, he'll take your calls in a bit at 877

333 7425. He'll help us assemble the perfect Tuscan picnic, complete with picture postcard views of

vineyards and villas in the hills of Central Italy.

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