73 European Comfort Food

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Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 19 November 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Some of the best souvenirs you can gather from your travels reside on your taste buds. On the next Travel with Rick Steves, Rick explores some of the comfort foods that his European friends enjoy in Paris, Madrid, and Tuscany, and how you can enjoy them when you visit their regions. We'll get advice on preparing and eating escargot (ess-car-GO) and steak tartare (tar-TAR), and get a recipe on how to mix up your own batch of sangria (san-GREE-ah). And we hear from listeners about some of their memorable food encounters overseas. We're whetting our appetites, European style, on this week's Travel with Rick Steves. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	These days many of my favorite souvenirs are the memories of great eating overseas.
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Today we're taking our taste butts out for a little edible sight scene.
0:10.0	Just like Americans love their roast turkey and apple pie. We're exploring
0:14.6	some of the culinary delicacies that Europeans treasure. We'll sample the local
0:18.6	favorites in Paris and Madrid and discuss how you can enjoy these specialties in your travels.
0:23.0	And a good Spanish friend shares his family recipe for killer Sangria.
0:27.0	I'll also chat with an Italian friend in Umbria to learn about a fall culinary ritual
0:32.0	that gourmet eaters
0:33.0	happily pay a fortune to enjoy.
0:35.0	Roberto Becky tells us about the excitement of the hunt for truffles
0:38.8	and the great joy in eating truffles.
0:41.8	And our traveling listeners get in on the conversation, sharing
0:44.8	favorite and maybe not so favorite food experiences from their travels. We've
0:49.2	reserved a place at the table for you as we give our pallets a little dose of French, Italian, and Spanish
0:54.8	cuisine.
0:55.8	It's coming right up on Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly.
1:15.0	Are you getting hungry? I'm Rick Steves. Today I'm joined by friends from
1:19.2	Paris and Madrid to help us enjoy the top taste treats in their cities. Some dishes are
1:24.7	touristic cliches, others are offbeat, care for a few pigs ears. We'll also
1:29.9	travel to Italy to learn why so many gourmet eaters are following their dogs rummaging
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