Food and Travel

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Bacon mania
Why are Americans so batty for bacon? It's delicious, it's decadent -- and it's also a fashion statement.
Good to the last drop
What makes a perfect pot of joe? Is Fair Trade really fair? "God in a Cup" author Michaele Weissman talks about the history, and our continuing love affair, with that divine drink -- coffee.
Is local food really miles better?
Many of us now count "food miles." But local fruits and veggies may not be more carbon-friendly than produce at the supermarket.
The motor home fades into the sunset
There's nothing like having the freedom of the road and the comforts of home. But $5 gas is pushing the fantasy of comfortable vagabondage to the wall.
Ask the pilot
The smell of smoke in the cockpit, and it's back to Boston for a planeload of fixated Japanese tourists.
Summer reads
True confessions: From a trek through the American West to a life filled with music, these memoirs will whisk you away.
My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints!
I drank some wine, took my pills, boarded the plane and woke up on a gurney!
I should have gone to my aunt's funeral
I could have gone, I should have gone, but I thought about the money and my other plans!
Ask the pilot
The bone-bending, ergonomic hell of economy class. Six easy ideas for making flying more comfortable.
Free trade for food
While Americans bicker over the Colombia FTA, China and New Zealand cut a deal. Could rising food prices be the reason?
Ask the pilot
From cockpit check to walkaround to stocking the galley: The Zen of preparing the "Monster" to fly.
In memory of Gordon Ramsay
The host of "Hell's Kitchen" is a good chef, lost beneath his own shtick.
Ask the pilot
The rich, colorful, checkered history of flying in Latin America. Plus: In which cities is it best to just fly in and get the hell out?
How the fortune cookie crumbles
Is Chinese food as American as apple pie? Jennifer 8. Lee discusses the strange evolution of everyone's favorite ethnic food.
Extreme acts of animal cruelty
The Humane Society investigator who spurred the biggest beef recall in U.S. history speaks to Salon about his alarming undercover video.
Ask the pilot
Are the airlines being bashed unfairly for their eco-unfriendliness? What's their real impact on the environment?
Would the Democratic candidates make your food safer?
An examination of the responses of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to the biggest beef recall in U.S. history.
The truffles are coming
A new crop of American dreamers are betting the farm on truffles, which Europeans have savored like sex for ages. But can the Yanks get the mysterious mushrooms to grow?
Gumbo city
Author Sara Roahen talks about her love affair with the big, decadent flavors of the Big Easy -- from crawfish and beer, to gumbo, and deep-fried oysters and brie. All guilt-free.
This blade slices, it dices
Top chefs adore them, Rachael Ray sells them, so what's the big fuss about Japanese knives?
Ask the pilot
If I've flown into the Port-au-Prince airport, does that mean I've been to Haiti? What, exactly, constitutes a trip to another country?
My husband and I are fighting bitterly over our failing restaurant
He's cooking the books and starting to throw chairs. I got scared and hid his handgun.
Trading preschool for passports
What if the best thing for my sons turned out to be uprooting them from everything they know?
Michael Pollan's manifesto on eating well
The polemical sequel to "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Pollan's new book shows how processed foods are making us fat and sick -- and why eaters must revolt.
Some drunken chick is texting my husband while we're sleeping
He says there's nothing between them, so why is she doing it?
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