Show Notes
Brace yourself listeners, you're about to feel hungry! For the season finale, Saveur Travel Editor Benjamin Kemper treats us to a foodie tour of Madrid.
From young upstart chefs serving feasts out of food stalls to traditional tabernas that have been selling wine for centuries, heavenly churros to hearty pig ears (perhaps a dish reserved for the daring), the Spanish capital is a gourmet's delight.
Beyond the plates we discover street parties, superb galleries, grisly histories and the cheekily named Park of the Seven Boobies.
*Correction: the cocido restaurant in El Escorial is not Casa Carola but El Charolés*
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