How to Survive—No, Enjoy—Airport Food

The second season of TV show The Bear found the characters more siloed on their own journeys outside the kitchen. One learned about hospitality at the real Chicago restaurant Ever, while another flew to Copenhagen to train with the best. Liza Colón-Zayas’ character Tina went to culinary school, but she wouldn’t have minded a more far-flung filming location for her character—and she knows just the place. “Well, the Berzattos are of Italian descent,” she says, referring to the central family of the show. “Pizza school in Italy!”

This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.

This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.

This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.

This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.

Miami-based couple Carlos Adyan and Carlos Quintanilla lead busy professional lives: Adyan is the host of the NBCUniversal Telemundo show En Casa Con Telemundo and co-proprietor of restaurant A Fuego Lento, while Quintanilla is the vice president of original content for Sony Pictures Television. Given the couple's high-profile jobs (and their combined Instagram following of nearly 700,000), when it came time to plan their wedding, the couple felt like they needed to step away from their home city to get into a nuptial mindset. “We thought a destination wedding would take us out of our setting—we’ll feel like we’re on vacation, not like we have to go to work tomorrow after the wedding,” says Adyan.

All eyes are fixed on Paris—the world’s most-visited city—as it gears up to welcome up to 10 million travelers next month for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But the world is paying attention to far more than just the sporting events this year, as the games' flashy new infrastructure projects aim to transform the city: Perhaps most notably, Paris has spent $1.5 billion attempting to clean up the Seine River to open it to swimming—something that pollution has made impossible for the past century. The city aims to open three public swimming spots on the river by next summer—just one of many initiatives that will affect Parisians and travelers far after the games are over.

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It has been nearly eight years since my three Welsh children have visited my family in the United States. Even though I would have loved to make the eight-hour plane trip with them more often, logistics, the pandemic, and cost have kept us away.