338a Tastes of Italy, Paris, and Basque Country
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 21 May 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Tour guides from Paris and the Spanish Basque Country share recommendations for enjoying their local cuisine, and food writer Fred Plotkin helps us appreciate the culinary traditions of Italy, where every bite can be a celebration.
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| 0:00.0 | In the Bask country of Spain and France they make a special variety of white wine that just might catch you by surprise. |
| 0:07.0 | It's a very dangerous type of wine because you drink it very cold and you're very happy when you drink it and when you |
| 0:13.8 | stand up from the table you have a problem. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi I'm Rick Steves. Coming up in a moment on travel with Rick Steves we take our |
| 0:21.0 | taste buds to the Basque country and we learn how to embrace |
| 0:24.9 | the traditions of eating out in Paris and we all know how to say it thanks to |
| 0:29.4 | Julia Child a boar opportunity it's a wonderful way to connect with locals. |
| 0:34.0 | And Fred Plotkin shares why you should slow down and enjoy preparing and eating a good meal the way they do in Italy. |
| 0:41.0 | We have to be grateful to nature and we have to be stewards of the land |
| 0:44.9 | because that's what gives us good food as opposed to junk food which comes |
| 0:48.9 | out of laboratories and factories. Let's savor the moments with dinner dates in Paris, Italy, and the Basque Country. |
| 0:55.8 | It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:01.0 | One great way to connect with the locals is to speak the language or at least some of it. |
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| 1:22.2 | One of the greatest pleasures of a trip to Europe is discovering the immense variety of excellent food, |
| 1:28.0 | local food traditions in each country and region. |
| 1:31.0 | Today on travel with Rick Steevesves we enter a world without American style |
| 1:35.0 | chain restaurants and none of those mega-sized supermarkets and will get excited about |
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