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himself before dawn ford for its winner could face a ban from cycling. you're watching the w. news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more bold news followed by the day hope to see that. climate change just. wished. pollution. isn't it time for a good. go at africa people and projects that are changing the lines are meant for the better so just to make a difference he could pick up the magazine long d.w. .
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every journey needs a beginning ours starts in berlin. it will take us to distant places as we follow our noses on an adventure to tickle out text box. we have a date to dine with the entire world. to korea works with prize better be i think he plays certain we'll discover things that we don't know and things that will surprise us far away on the american continent. what can we learn about the people we meet when we meet the things they eat. test sangeetha i'm a mom. we will taste life on the streets. and find food for folks in the process.
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hi norman how fun and keep me posted. will do tomas i'm on my way first off the united states. this is how a perfect day starts in portland oregon with hockey breakfast. let me give. you. the full. truth.
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of the speed of the future. sarah owner of the egg carton proudly presents the goods belmont sandwich and eggs benedict handmade homemade and made with long you. will find that this is a raspberry having your original so it starts weeds but it's going to end with a cake because have in your eyes will affect the later in the palate and it's it's definitely a hot ticket for us. with the common thing you'll hear from chefs food carts is well i'm not a real chef but michel sleiman is a prominent chef here in the united states and he defines a chef as someone who runs their own kitchen so i use that against those who got owners to help them realize she runs her own kitchen the food is amazing she has employees to supervising everything she's a chef and she's a great chef. live from portland oregon says tasty tuesday night a nine point one f.m. portland radio. project i am stephen show me your host the lie that you're here
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with me this morning as always we have three hours of also music rock folk and blues and coming up at nine am we'll have a food car guest live and in studio. first . any different than other cities in the u.s. but poland is different. more laid back maybe. home for the average joe and jane as for the extra votes in amman. and portland is the perfect place for steve this personal goes something like this
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and talk about it. or thing on his radio show. the right shelly's garden now known as hawk and huge burritos was one of the first food carts we had here in portland we had a real explosion the food cart scene when the great recession hit the portland economy today we have more than six hundred carts open in the metro area pave the way for carts to come into being. many an american dream has been born in a. dream starts a new every morning in her. after she thought she might use in the media but then decided against it she just couldn't see herself she tells me. with her dad don't personally. there is a family business. in ways long. at the height of it but to year two thousand we had thirteen people on payroll we had to. locations in the city and i
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was much more of a manager at that time than a vendor because i was having i have babies and two little girls and so i was busy doing that stuff so i could be a manager as soon as the girls were about five six years old i came right back and started jumped in to be a vendor again and kind of size down at that point because i really i like a little less hustle and bustle i like having the one cart now. today they have just one food cart in the heart of portland. right or shine even people came through the rain so you know that's. the golden good looking thing . what are you doing today in the big world sometimes people were hungry and could come and just talk and share with their lives share with me and we have something to eat for them and so we're trying to be a member of the community that way and now it seems generations of people grow up
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and come back and bring their families and their grandchildren and and really love the journey of being in a place for twenty five years and the. customers received an ominous letter from viola florence is. now people come to shelley for advice she likes to home in a city where very very many people need how known as a progressive bastion of liberal values. long struggle to cope with homelessness. hungry customers or even if they don't time. you like. do you like fresh go very nice health by if you like. treated with courtesy and respect just like every other and share your life you're very welcome. so when it comes up in the food court here in portland there are four things you need that are absolutely essential once you get
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a place most of our food carts are not mobile they are and what we call food cart pods you have to have somewhere to put your cart the second thing you need is your actual cart and whether it is a trailer that you pull or an actual truck with an engine you need to get one of those contraptions some people buy them used some people have the manufacturer there's a number of really good manufacturers right here in portland that will make one for you. michael and his mechanics are such experts they build food trucks customers need to fork out plenty fine to fifty thousand dollars for a trailer building kitchen that's made to measure three times two to three months but they can also manage to weeks because ultimately everything is possible. so
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far i know of two trailers that i've sold that didn't quite make it just two. which makes me feel that what i do is in the right place this is where people grow and they make money and they're successful they're happy. it sounds like an easy formula and it sure worked his food trucks are a runaway success. but that gives a hard because you know we wish that on my worst part but you know but. you can't be you might do it you know i know you have it much so. it's good. and he's ready to roll literally from tomorrow mows new trail will be serving up freshly fried spring rolls.
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calendar a pioneers cook up a storm on street corners across for live your dream do your thing that spirit is no longer everywhere in the u.s. but it is here in portland. is especially when it comes to food. steve on the radio host. and colander a storyteller has made it his mission to help newcomers to the scene. it's a jump that suits his tastes. that burgess baking could be eaten. it is phenomenal. you get cheese you got bacon tomato lettuce thousand island.
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and when the juice runs down your hands like that nominal right there at your burger of old baby. but it takes perseverance and hard work to strike don't stephen has no illusions they are bad for business being in the colony business is very very very hard work it's discouraging its long hours it's tiring and you don't make any money when i first started some people said oh you're just a cheerleader for food carts but i said you're right i am bombs are free many skirt you have to pay extra for that because i wanted to cheer them on and i knew they could make it every time of who succeeds it was brick and mortar has multiple parts and makes his business go it fills my heart with joy because i want to see that make it did thomas is the american dream dent innovation at least is alive and kicking on the streets of portland. down here in mexico the stories they tell sound like dreams every year and early november
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a miracle happens in the mountains outside mexico city millions of monarch butterflies arrive and settle pinoy like thoughts on the wind. it's the end of an eight month migration to wide areas of north america and back a journey that takes the butterflies for successive generations to complete. come spring the monarchs will breed before flying north to lay eggs and then die it is not known how their offspring find their way back to mexico. but people on the streets of the capitol have their own explanation one that's been passed down through the generations.
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but it isn't filled little bundle yet they love them but we believe that when someone dies and is buried they rise again as a butterfly. and no for the day of the dead on a day when museum butterfly we say to each other look there is grandpa or that's our auntie over there. we see our lost loved ones again in the butterflies. it makes us feel good it was that it was nice is no better than to see this yes it was door the. mexico is preparing to celebrate the sad and yet jovial holiday dia de los muertos in two days' time. victor a stout man with a big heart has his hands full. the entire family pitches in and a neighbor makes the tortillas. victor says with some pride that this talk of those are the best in mexico city. of
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the continental and the long line of his stall would appear to endorse that claim. given what do you recommend victor of the company chinatown grows there are special to. figure. out sickens like a hearty taco. and make package with proper eco sausage. cheese from one pocket that melts into a cream. and then there's more meat. it's all topped with fresh snow poppies the cat just fruit and plenty of sumatra. and which salsa do you recommend. i go for the red one is the spiciest good i like
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it a bit spicy but you mexicans of course can handle a lot more right. than most of the above the because of that we give shelter to our kids so they get used to the spiciness from an early age for us there is no day without sauce and. even if the spiciness gives us an upset stomach look we mexicans are modern doors we simply keep on eating. a lot is a visit. that. there's no elegant way to eat a taco it's simply a cornucopia of indulgence very tasty if and spicy. victor gets all the ingredients he needs around the corner mexico's markets are a celebration of the fullness and freshness of life.
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but on the day of the dead mexican celebrate something else as well. the morbid fascination with. the. at their home in the countryside victor and his wife imelda have set up an altar for relatives who have passed on but it's a tradition. it's. really not the candle we say this is for you my sister a needle but every candle bears the name of someone who has died. it's important to provide things that they liked it was it for example so they can have a drink when they arrive to visit and this was. for him. my
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sister in law like to keep so we've also put out a bottle of tequila. and sweet things of course which the dead in mexico savor as much as the living pandey muerto bread sprinkled with lots of sugar. war colorful skulls made from pure sugar cane syrup. then three generations into an old pickup truck. at the cemetery the entire extended family decorates the grave of imelda sister in law who died a year ago. but. her husband victor's brother is overcome by grief.
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his wife. her mother was only forty seven but the day is not dominated by sadness. as a leader he could have it. was often it's a joyous festival it happens to me because life is short for the limbs that all that and one day will have to go to. see but i'm proud of the life i lead now and i'm happy when people come to my stand to eat tacos and leave satisfied you know for leave to return again soon in the us. in the evening the smell of incense walking across the graves like a scene and of a rock painting. and right behind the cemetery wall people are again cooking and eating like they
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seem to do everywhere in this country life and death pleasure and pain. they're never far apart in mexico. the following morning victor and his family are back on the street setting up their stand. they've offered their dead now life goes on. i think. in the moment was all that was in one day will be gone but my sons should carry on here and if they do a better job than me all the better. people always leave something to eat naturally were no exceptions. and. death is part of life in mexico. but as victor would say as long as we're here we might as well eat the best tacos in town
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. mexicans live life to the full that's not always possible for people here in colombia how to see where the fish are jose miguel munoz's fifty six years old he has eleven children and twenty one grandchildren a lot of experience. with that you have to know how to handle the rope that's the key thing is how you spot a real body chattel. errors when they call you. yes chase what you call this type of fishing and to fish like this you need to control the rope otherwise you're nobody chettle anything else while. the whole family pulls together here literally fathers brothers uncles nephews the rope is two to three hundred metres long. not too fast not too slow
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the fisherman need to be a jew to the right that's the secret. and that is how the college arrows have come to hang out bring in the fish always hoping for a catch for a team a net. and
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there's enough for everyone. to know. that my own kids don't do this anymore they go to school or have jobs in town at the very most they'll come down here to take a walk they aren't fishermen and never will be. in love i hope i get that from a way of life seemingly suspended in time for the fisherman on the only ones with an uncertain future in modern day contacting. alabama. one says hold on to land fish johnny is shocked. lad. from the sea
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into the frying pan and from then into the pocket. from the pockets of a customer a squeeze of lime and it's ready to eat. supply far outstrips the amount causing him a street team with a friend has. lost a lot of. that little hollow body. and each one carries the weight of his past through the city streets. like francisco the team tara the coffee man. every day he makes his rounds about town there are hundreds of vendors like him or king coffee pouring and refueling the more often the better obviously if you don't sell you won't survive.
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francisco is not from ca to hainan his hometown is a few hundred kilometers away. and i thought that if. you leave here we had to leave our village because of the violence and the war between government troops and the rebels and. we had to flee to save our lives the lives of our families and children we left everything behind me that much of the whole. area had a dad i am and always will be a farmer. or your legal appeal on the memory day i go down on my knees and pray that we'll be able to return to our fields but the war in colombia ends once and for all and. the peace deal has failed to hold violence in colombia and until it does francisco is staying here in qatar haina serving cabot's ito a small coffee that's a staple of the colombian diamond fast and easy powdered sugar water change
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there's no more magic to it than that business is so sad. let me show you i don't want my kids to be doing this they need proper jobs. see i'll do anything to help that it will even if it means they'll never return with me to the village and to our field here you think they're not they're going to will be. caught again or the queen of the caribbean dream destination for cruise ships and independent travelers. just fifty kilometers outside of the city and the world looks quite different. sun bacilli oh dear pele in case my life can be better but the food is sweet. pollyanna and manuela make a sticky dessert out of coconut milk and
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a whole lot of sugar they've never seen the recipe written down but often heard it talked about. is that their parents and grandparents showed us everything we watched and learned from them. up in them or that it isn't so easy not everyone knows how to make it. about anyone with our it's out editions they know how i mean but i guess. most residents of palanker are descendants of runaway slaves who founded the community as a refuge four hundred years ago locals say it was the first independent community in the americas a place with a rich past and a meek a future that's the impression you get walking its streets. not a place it's easy to leave with a home made goods liana and i will set out for car to hana.
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whatever else our sisters need for the day they pick up on arrival in the city and this is where any romanticism about the traditions of their ancestors and. the fruit in the supermarket they say is simply fresh air. business is slow in sweets and fruit. but a photograph with a colorful appealing characters that something tourists will pay for.
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yet is that ok you'll tell me i hope my kids won't have to do this kind of work my daughters know all about preparing the sweets they know everything. but i don't want them to follow in my footsteps is their future and that's not that it doesn't . prove plate is the fisherman the coffee vendors the street food here is less a matter of passion than it is a slightly embarrassing necessity a sobering observation. we encountered this vague hope of better times often thomas but nowhere as often as in colombia. in peru norman hope has been passed down through the ages. it doesn't sound flattering when the people of lame remark of their city it's guy
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has the color of a donkey stomach but maybe it should be seen as a declaration of love the cool waters of the peru current lack the shores of lima they don't just bring fog they also deliver the freshest pacific dish to the capitals doorstep. for we also find a dish that is so simple and wonderful it quickly makes you forget the grey skies. amid the fish stalls of a district that is poor and sometimes dangerous you find the best. at dawn your vision your stand. you'll say yes i know the proper way to prepare i don't make anything else i wouldn't be able to sell anything else was. wrong fish from the roadside yes it's fine at least if you buy it from. salt and hot chilies are added to the fresh fish the juice of peruvian limes alters
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the protein in the fish effectively cooking it without feet. she serves it with corn sweet potatoes and sea grass. don't you have the heene years to feature a taste school and fresh like the pacific earthy and sharp like the n.d.s. she's modest about her talent. and the single mother my dishes are in college i have to work so we can live and i can study. is it tough. well you know how life is. i want my daughters to have a better life that's all. it is anything she doesn't go anywhere without her family photos of people. using her eyes glowing with pride as she shows me
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pictures of her grandchild her daughters and future son in law in a manner of eating i don't. want to go when i tell you we love. them this is it but. i ran away from home when my parents separated i didn't get along great with my mother but then i came to lima and was alone i had to fend for myself. after her husband left her it was the fish that secured her livelihood. for peruvians signature is more than just a dish a wager bet sums of each day reconcile disputes over signature. and swap anecdotes about severe. years you are you'll be able me as a child i often rode my bike to the beach where a man sold should be checked. he wanted to know whether i wanted it spicy or not he
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got it back then people thought it was dangerous unhygenic to eat at the street corner at that but for me it was like theater or the most fascinating movie in the world with all of us you know that one that. if it weren't for his escape to the beach guest on our core duo may well have become a lawmaker like his father but luckily he pursued a career as a chef and may well be one of the world's best his fish dishes in body peruvian history. this is a reaching this is the original city choked on sisters chili salt and fish it's the bond between the ocean and the mountains a love story between the pacific and the ending so yeah. you know some. that's because one of the key ingredients grows far away from the coast in the rugged wilderness of the andes. at an altitude of three thousand metres above sea level lies the sacred valley of the incas. valley so fertile it was
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a personal possession of the ruling family. the incas were the first to plant rico to hear. this almost magical chili pepper this still readily available today at markets in the mountains. see this is because it is healthy for the body always need something sweet and salty. is it bad i eat to help fight infections which is a skill in n c it's a nice and hot tear down not being. rococo and salt preserve the fish a process that in ancient times and shirts of each year could also be enjoyed in
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the highlands. relay's a fast running couriers ferry the fish from the pacific coast to the n.d.s. . after their bloody conquests the spanish built churches then palaces on the ruins of the inca civilization. they also changed the local fish dish by adding lime juice and red onion. for star chef guest on our curio civvy chase sums up the best of peru. and its recent rise as a major cull an area export has made peruvians proud. foodies around the world are crazy first of each. easter so each a choice it's
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a recipe that our grandmothers have passed down through the centuries for us as i were a long time we didn't value it but that has changed today peruvian cuisine is famous for the well go up it was nice to stop but it's in the record. in lima don't you the heaney a starts the second half of her day. she's babysitting her young grandchild. goes a d.j. is what keeps her family together. and maybe one day she hopes peru's national. dish will help her fulfill a dream. we work here on the street. and naturally we'd like to improve our lot and have our own restaurant. that's what we all want something bigger something better something good. that is
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a little. worn from the sea mature in the end and loved by star chefs and street vendors. norman has much more than just a dish it's a way of life. i like that i'm sure that something will encounter in argentina too . there's a specific vibe here. your desire. for meat the way to a man's heart is through his stomach naturally. no way. there's no obvious sign of an economic crisis in buenos aires at least not at first glance
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but the city has been gripped by economic malaise for many years the locals to their best to ignore it. they say here life has its ups and downs it's a city that needs to be experienced right in a taxi is a good way of exploring even more so when someone like cloudy how is your driver someone who takes you along for more than a right. now we're. going to meet up with the guys we always get together midday. twenty thirty taxi drivers are merely toes grow. they're more relaxed a bit have a bite to eat more shark. ours shares and job. is cloudy oh he's fifty nine years old has four kids grandkids italian roots a third generation immigrant family. cardio likes to enjoy himself he has no
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pretenses this is how his mates know him and why can't. you argentinians are passionate people and they indulge their passion for good food and good meat to the forest the world's biggest cattle market is located in the heart of one desires it could be anywhere else this is where you will really grasp the essence of the country cloudy hotels argentina seoul and argentina stop. those. shops. run steak. i see cut before my eyes on the grill in the oven oh die for. that's the best
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you can buy now animals are nervous they see what's going. on the first auction took place one hundred fifteen years ago and the rules have remained unchanged ever since it is up above. the cattle down below. up to ten thousand animals under the hammer each day the best quality is available for less than two euros. in a country with an insatiable appetite for steak the business with beef is always brisk. at times the government has helped out with subsidies because many task to be affordable a full stomach is less likely to complain about crises. i don't want to try it anything else would be a mistake charge it so meat off the grill delicately seasoned straight from the cattle market and it's open at canteen.
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time and again on this trip we were generously invited to dine with our hosts. i'm waiting for you a kilometer marker one o five. we're on our way. about time our paths cross again. we've traveled thousands of kilometers through the world street kitchens now to cap era adventure a final chapter of it couldn't be any moral fantic out on the compound with account shows the cattle ranchers whether wind blows but there's no rush what better place
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to wrap up this long journey no one is a stranger here for long and that's certainly down to the fares. are. argentina is very diverse but you're all united by a love of meat. absolutely meat was always and is always available we have an endless supply of cattle in the past they used the skins for leather and just. the tongue at least according to legend but there's never been a shortage of meat and no one in the go hungry here garden to me and meat is considered the best in the world or i will go to cook out an attic and no no no i think with your i absolutely no question. and here in the countryside you get the
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very best only organic top quality the catalona you don't grasp no additives nothing bad. yes it is good. the barbecue. the wine. but they could serve us who knows what. we'd probably find it delicious because food always tastes good in company a simple insight not a bad one argentina is a good place for such reflection of the. food on the road to go or on the spot. from east to west through asia. from north to south across the american continent so many countries sent many kitchens so many people the stories they could hardly be more diverse but there are
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