032 - Doing things local
Craig and Linda delight in local life this week and encourage you to do the same on the “Indie Travel Podcast: Doing things local”.
We talk about what a great time we’ve had eating local food and drinking local beverages, including pumpkin beer from Austria’s oldest brewery, and Linda relives childhood trauma in Malaysia.
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September 28th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
The best food I’ve had recently was in Assisi, Italy in a little tratoria called San Tucci. The Grigliata San Tucci, the house special, consists of balls of mozzerella cheese wrapped in thin beef steak and grilled over an open fire.
YUM!
September 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Oh man, there’s so much good stuff out there. Lunch today was pretty fantastic - we went for a walk with two teachers yesterday and found wild mushrooms, which we picked. Then today, the teachers cooked them for us, schnitzel-style. Local mushrooms and local beer - excellent. Cheers, Eva and Annie.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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September 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
A dish I had in Rarotonga and Tahiti. It is known as Poisson Cru in French Polynesia and ika mata in the Cook Islands.
It is tuna marinated in lime juice and coconut milk with cucumber, onions and tomato.
It is excellent.
I’ve also just had a great dish in the Philippines called kare kare, which is a beef dish in a peanut sauce.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 am
All this talk is getting me hungry. I am craving the Grigliata San Tucci…
October 5th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Eating local seems to be a popular topic of late.
At the Travelcommons.com web site, I blogged about the growth of local foods in airports. I look show up early for flights out of Memphis so that I can grab a plate of pork bar-b-que.
In TravelCommons #57, which also featured Craig’s bluetooth keyboard suggestion, I told the story of wandering Center City Philadelphia in search of breakfast and found my local food fix in the form of an egg, cheese and scrapple sandwich bought from a street vendor. This takes time, though. It would’ve been much easier for me to grab the usual generic breakfast in the hotel than go outside and find the scrapple sandwich vendor. I’m glad I had the time when I was in Phila, but business travelers don’t often have that luxury.
A few years ago, in TravelCommons episodes #8 and #9, I talked about the “insurance” people believe they get from choosing well-known brands over local fare — avoiding the risk of a bad meal, but missing the opportunity to savor the great local fare and build lasting memories such as the ones mentioned by previous posters. It’s probably easier to take that risk with a meal (you can always leave and grab a bite elsewhere) than it is with, say, a hotel.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Cheers guys, I often find food and drink plays a big part in my memories of a place, so I think that risk element is an important one.
Take the risk.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Thanks for the podcast! I wanted to let you know that we included a link to this one on our blog recently:
http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/Blog/Controller/viewEntry?permalink-title=podcast-roundup–travel-with-a-conscience
We have a podcast called “Two Fools. One Adventure. No Idea: Tuxedo Travels and CouchSurfing.com” that you might enjoy. It’s here: http://www.idealist.org/podcasts
Thanks!
Julia
June 7th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Eating local is the way to go! So many reasons today (GAS prices being uppermost on most people’s minds) - but supporting your neighbors who are the growers and preparers is another as is the quality of the food. Me and two others (Stanford University chef Bruce Biron and a Certified Exercise Physiologist Janel Willette) have put together “California Healthy, Southern California Edition,” for your enjoyment. Winner of two book awards and endorsed by David L. Katz, MD, there’s nothing else like it (think “Healthy Highways” on steroids - organic and sustainable, of course).