{"id":836,"date":"2021-01-04T22:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2021-01-04T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:29:56","slug":"a-casual-visit-discussing-italy-food-culture-humanity-with-fred-plotkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/a-casual-visit-discussing-italy-food-culture-humanity-with-fred-plotkin\/","title":{"rendered":"A casual visit discussing Italy, food, culture & humanity with Fred Plotkin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Podcast Episode #12 – A casual visit discussing Italy, food, culture & humanity with Fred Plotkin<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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In this show you will meet Fred Plotkin, author of 9 books who has written for dozens of leading publications, including The\u00a0New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Opera News, Gourmet, Time, Newsweek, GQ, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, Gastronomica<\/em>, and magazines around the world.<\/div>\n
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\ud83c\udfa7 LISTEN NOW! <\/a><\/strong>\ud83c\udfa7<\/div>\n
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The New York Times calls Fred \u201cexpert on everything in Italy.\u201d Fred also hosts a YouTube show titled,\u00a0Fred Plotkin on Fridays<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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Show Notes:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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– The early years in Italy and how he came to write\u00a0Italy for the Gourmet Traveler.<\/em><\/div>\n
– Writing & Publishing<\/div>\n
– Plotkin\u2019s viewpoints about what makes a place, genuine, authentic, and appealing.<\/div>\n
– Grinding food crisis. Plotkin says, \u201cFood is linked not only to culture, health and nutrition, but also to economics and politics\u201d<\/div>\n
– Definition of \u201cFoodie\u201d and why Plotkin is NOT one<\/div>\n
– The science of food and nutrition and his cookbook for pregnant women.<\/div>\n
– Plotkin takes the challenge and designs a trip for a potential first time traveler.<\/div>\n
– How Plotkin feeds the homeless. Honoring food and supporting little independent food markets, and family restaurants.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83c\udfa7 LISTEN NOW! <\/a>\ud83c\udfa7<\/div>\n
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\u27a1\ufe0f Be sure to follow Fred on Youtube<\/a> and Facebook.<\/a><\/div>\n
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\ud83d\udcda Check out his books on Amazon:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/bit.ly\/ItalyForTheGourmetTraveler<\/a><\/div>\n
http:\/\/bit.ly\/Opera101FredPlotkin<\/a><\/div>\n
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Please listen & subscribe if you enjoy this episode\u2014it\u2019s free and will notify you of future episodes! And, of course, I always appreciate a review, like, or comment<\/div>\n
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If you know of someone who we should hear from on another episode, please let us know! \u27a1\ufe0fwww.freedomtravelllc.com\/podcast-guest-suggestions<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Podcast Episode #12 – A casual visit discussing Italy, food, culture & humanity with Fred Plotkin In this show you will meet Fred Plotkin, author of 9 books who has written for dozens of leading publications, including The\u00a0New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Opera News, Gourmet, Time, Newsweek, GQ, Travel & Leisure, Food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}