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MUNCHIES Guide to the Basque Country - Part 3

Watch as Irene cuddles baby piglets (then eats their relatives' bacon), gets tipsy at a 500-year-old cider house, and chomps her way through two pounds of chuleta steak.

In the Basque country, where many can trace their names back to time immemorial, family is key. In our third installment, "Blood Lines," Irene explores how Basques pass down food traditions over generations in the region's rural heartland.

At the Urdapilleta farm, she gets to cuddle baby piglets (but all is forgotten when she tries the bacon). Then it's time to check out the Zapiain sidrería—or cider house—with its five-hundred-year history, and finally, off to the Casa Julian steakhouse.

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Prepare to shed a tear of joy with Irene as she chomps her way through two pounds of the biggest, baddest chuleta steak she's ever tasted.

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