Program 773: Taste of Holland; French Feasting; Eating Across Spain

Travel on your stomach with the next edition of Travel with Rick Steves.

Tour guides from Holland and Spain recommend the traditional foods visitors should not miss out on, when you come to their countries.

An Australian chef who's settled in France lets us in on what he's observed about the French way to structure your day around mealtimes.

And we'll hear about the special cakes that bakers in Norway like to serve for the holidays.

• Dutch tour guides Jody van Engelsdorp and Ellen Janzing 
• Cook and podcaster Andrew Prior, author of "Paris: A Fabulous Food Guide to the World's Most Delicious City" (self-published)
• Spanish tour guides Jorge Román and Francisco Glária
• Norwegian tour guide Pål Johansen

• Ellen Janzing offers custom tours of The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland.
• Jody van Engelsdorp can be contacted from her Instagram page.
• Andrew Prior hosts the "Fabulously Delicious" podcast and newsletter, and has written "Paris: A Fabulous Food Guide to the World's Most Delicious City."
• Jorge Román lives in Madrid, and offers custom tours of the capital, southern Spain, and Catalonia.
• Francisco Glária Baines lives in Pamplona, and specializes in small group tours in Spain's Navarra region and Basque Country.
• Jorge and Francisco co-host the Spanish Loops weekly podcast on Spotify.
• Madrid tour guides Federico Garcia Barroso and Amanda Buttinger help Rick with the protocol for ordering tapas at one of Spain’s many bars serving elaborate appetizers on Travel with Rick Steves program #260b from July 2023.
• Norwegian tour guide Pål Bjarne Johansen offers custom tours and trip planning for Norway, at his "Norway with Pål" website.

• St. Germain, "Pont des Artes," Tourist / Blue Note
• FDH_FDHLP_0288_00101_Red_Squirrel_APM
• The Beau Hunks and the Metropole Orchestra, "We're Out For Fun," Our Relations: The Original Score by Leroy Shield (score to the Laurel and Hardy film ‘Our Relations') / Basta Audio-Visuals
• AVC_AVCD_0719_03001_The_Marketplace_APM
• SEL_SEL_6036_01201_Flying_Dutchman_APM
• SON_SAS_0025_01101_Oletjednlatten_APM
• * Ian Whitcomb & His Bungalow Boys, "Teddy Bear's Picnic (March/Two Step)," Dance Hall Days: A Program of Vintage Dances / ITW Records
• BIB_BIB_0118_00301_La_Taverne_de_Cap_Verte_APM
• Ralph Rousseau, Matangi String Quartet, "La vie en rose,"Chansons d'amour / Challenge Classics
• PRM_PRM_0253_00301_Django_Song_APM
• PW_PWLP_0015_00601_Grande_Valse_Romantique_APM
• Brave Combo, "Poor People of Paris," Humansville / Rounder
• F. Barcellini, "Manege," Music from the Films of Jacques Tati (soundtrack from the Jacques Tati film Play Time) / Phillips-PolyGram (France)
• Studio Two Symphony Orchestra, "Elizabethan Serenade: The Man in the Street (Binge)," British Light Classics (collection) / Warner Classics
• * Christopher Parkening, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Paul Shure, cond., "'We Thank Thee, Lord, We Thank Thee' from Cantat 29 (J.S. Bach)," The Great Recordings / EMI Classics
• SOHO_SOHOA_0116_00901_Guaracha_Chase_APM
• Manolo Sanlúcar, "Oración," Tauromagia / Polydor
• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesús Lopez-Cobos, cond., "‘The Neighbor's Dance' from ‘The Three-Cornered Hat' (Manuel de Falla)," Bella España (collection) / Telarc
• SON_SCDC_3610_00601_Cuaderno_li_jota_rondella_Aragonesa_APM
• Orquesta Ibérica de Conciertos y Coros Cantores de Madrid, "La Verbena de la Paloma (Mazurka)," Preludios e Intermedios de Zarzuelas 2 / NS (Spain)
• Leif Ove Andsnes, "Humoresque-bagatelles for piano, op. 11-FS 22, no. 1, ‘Goddag! Goddag! Goddag!' (Carl Nielsen)," A Portrait / EMI Classics
• Chateau Neuf, "The Great Pie Pols," Nordic Roots (sampler) / Northside

* Indicates filler music used during internal breaks on the broadcast

• Rick mentions preparing holiday cakes in Norway, in this week's billboard, at 7:14 in the segment A open, and 54:37 in the intro to the feature segment. Pål then describes typical Norwegian Christmas cakes.

Pgm #773 "Hungry" Haiku

Square table lunch spread.
Like artwork, but so tasty.
Smoked salmon divine.

— Christa Sadler, Flagstaff, Arizona

Land of my father
Prickly pear are everywhere
Roccapalumba
— Tony Scanio, Irving, Texas

Smoked salmon and eel
dark rye bread, brunost, and kål
Raise the vodka. Skol!

Plump sausages loll
o'er steamy taters and kohl.
Pour the Riesling. Prost!
— Teresa Janssen, Port Townsend, Washington