{"id":8013,"date":"2010-12-03T00:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T08:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2010-12-02T23:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T07:56:40","slug":"vienna-bagels-history-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/vienna-bagels-history-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"ODAY’S TRAVEL WOES #97: Trapped In Vienna With “The X Files”"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 1996<\/strong> (continued): <\/strong><\/p>\n

My flight from Rome<\/a> brought me to Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n

As usual, I found myself visiting an interesting city for the first time but without much opportunity to experience it. I didn\u2019t even have time to savor the taste of their water. FODOR\u2019S<\/em> guide book says the Vienna city water is among the best in the world… although you wouldn\u2019t guess that from the habits of local residents, who routinely order bottled water in restaurants.<\/p>\n

FODOR\u2019S also informed me that in 1683, Vienna introduced three important items to the western world. It was in 1683 that the Turks were driven out of Vienna by the soldiers of King Jan Sobieski of Poland and Duke Charles of Lorraine.<\/p>\n

When they fled, the Turks left behind hundreds of sacks filled with strange, brown beans. A Viennese merchant who had been to Turkey recognized them as the basis for the hot beverage the Turks called Kahve. <\/em>He took the beans and opened the very first Viennese coffeehouse. (The drink didn\u2019t become popular there, however, until he added milk to it.)<\/p>\n

In that same year, Viennese bakers celebrated the military defeat of the Moslems by creating a bun shaped like the emblem of Islam. Austrians call that shape a kipferl;<\/em> in French, it\u2019s croissant<\/em>. (In English, it\u2019s crescent.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Local bakers also introduced a new roll shaped like Sobieski\u2019s stirrup. The German word for stirrup was B\u0178 gel;<\/em> this was the birth of the world\u2019s first bagels.<\/p>\n

My first Vienna visit didn\u2019t begin auspiciously; the taxi that was supposed to be waiting for me at the airport wasn\u2019t there. But I managed to make it to the Radisson SAS Hotel, which was quite charming.<\/p>\n

When she gave me the key my room, the desk clerk said, “I am sure you will like it. It is one of our inside rooms, so it will be very quiet for you to sleep.”<\/em><\/p>\n

How nice, I thought. As I trundled toward the elevator I realized what she really was saying was I wouldn\u2019t have a view of the city. (That\u2019s a very good radio technique, repositioning the lack of access to fresh air and view as an aid to good sleep.)<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the room\u2019s windows opened onto the hotel\u2019s interior, above the skylight. As lovely as the room was, I realized how much I depend upon fresh air (I often open windows even in winter) and visual confirmation of the outside world for a certain level of both physical and psychic comfort.<\/p>\n

Once in the hotel room, I turned on the television. There is not a lot of English-language programming in Austria; on this particular night there was none. So I settled for the most familiar program I could find: The X Files,<\/em> dubbed into Italian.<\/p>\n

At the time, of course, that show was a huge hit in the U.S….for reasons completely unknown to me. Prior to that evening in Vienna, I had seen only one episode \u2014 a ridiculous, inane and clumsy story about million-year old insects escaping from an illegally cut tree and weaving huge cocoons around humans.<\/p>\n

That one episode was dumb enough to convince me never again to watch The X Files.<\/em><\/p>\n

But here I was, exhausted & alone at night in a strange land, wanting to unwind for a little while before trying to sleep. So I decided to give the show one more try.<\/p>\n

It was the same insect\/tree\/cocoon episode. <\/strong><\/p>\n

And it was just as stupid in Italian as it was in English.<\/p>\n

I spent the next day doing a seminar for \u00d63<\/strong>, Austria\u2019s national radio station. During a brainstorming session, in which I encourage on-air talent to use their own experiences for show prep, a great story was shared by their morning host, a mother of twin 9-year old girls who had celebrated their birthday the day before:<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re at that awkward age where they\u2019re starting to argue with their mother about whether they should be allowed to wear make-up…but they still argue with each other over who gets to push the buttons in the elevator.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That evening \u00d63\u2019s program director, Bogdan Roscic<\/strong>, and their BCI consultant, Stephan Halfpap<\/strong>, took me out for a quiet dinner at what they assured me was a typical Vienna neighborhood restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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