World Travel Series

Inside the Tuscan Hills

Presented by John Wilson
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011

Description:

This show presents a vivid portrait of a place where ancient traditions have never disappeared and gives an insider’s look at the rich rural culture of Tuscany. With exclusive access to the workshops, kitchen and homes of the Tuscan people, the show is a journey into one of the world’s most beautiful places. The program showcases the region’s amazing diversity of landscape, arts and food, revealing how the Tuscans themselves really live, weaving compelling stories of master craftsmen and country cooks, ancient farmhouses and rustic cheese makers, while soaking up the singularly beautiful landscape.

Menu:

Panzanella (Italian bread salad), roasted potato with red onion, spuntature e fagioli (spare ribs with beans), piselli alla Fiorentina (Florentine style spring peas), zuccotto (sponge cake with chocolate)

The Best of Bavaria

Presented by Fran Reidelberger Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011

Description:

Many writers have called Bavaria, “Germany’s Heaven.” Travelers call it one of the world’s top tourist destinations. Filmmakers Fran and Brooke Reidelberger call it a photographer’s dream. In this new production, the Reidelbergers travel from the flatlands of Franconia to Alpine peaks, mixing old and new, ancient arts and modern kitsch, little known and well known, craftsmen and cowboys, fun festivals and serious worship, mountains and forests, cities and towns, people and things, the mundane and the magnificent to create an entertaining and enlightening presentation they call “The Best of Bavaria.”

Menu:

Warmer blaukrautsalat (warm red cabbage salad), kartoffenkuche (Bavarian potato pancake), bofflamot (marinated beef), gemusepichelsteiner (bavarian vegetable stew), karottenkuchen (carrot cake)

The Silk Road: A Journey Through China, Central Asia and Turkey

Presented by Marlin Darrah Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Description:

Few adventures in the world arouse as much curiosity and wonder as the one called, “The Silk Road.” Along that timeless road are such magical places as Samarkand, Buhkara and Khiva. These and other sites are the stuff of legends. Traders and warriors traveled by camel and on foot along the Silk Road, transporting not only precious cargo and treasures, but also fascinating customs and cultures. The program is composed of exciting segments filmed in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghzstan, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Turkey and China.

Menu:

Tomato onion & pepper salad (Kyrguzstan), vegetable plov (rice pilaf, Uzbekistan), turkmen stuffed chicken (Turkmenistan), vegetable stir fry (China), asure (Noah’s pudding, Turkey)

Discovering the Dutch - Presented by Sandy Mortimer

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Description:

“Discovering the Dutch” goes beyond the clichés and gabled houses and into the stories of history already made as well as today’s life and history in the making. View historic sights in Amsterdam, visit a lively cheese market, climb inside working windmills, visit a flower auction and the World War II site of Arnhem, go underground for a look at a historic coalmine, tour the remains of Camp Westerbork, the Dutch internment camp, meet the owners of a charming farm site and visit a fishing village with its fascinating legend.

Dutch cucumber salad, smoked gouda risotto, gestoofde vis (poached white fish), navy beans and snap peas, Dutch apple pie