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The Simple Fix For That Broken Zipper on Your Luggage

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Your flight leaves in three hours. Your zipper broke three seconds ago. How are you going to get your massive suitcase back to Topeka without your bathing suit winding up in the cargo hold on an A380? The answer is simple: use plastic wrap. It’s nowhere near a permanent solution, but if you’ve got a…

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Thou Shalt Not Gas: 7 Surprising Foods to Avoid Before Flying

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Another day, another outlet posting about not eating beans before flights. It’s a little old, don’t you think? Actually, that’s rather rude of me because the group that made the post is AARP, the advocacy group for retired people that also sounds like the noise a seal makes. They posted “10 Foods to Avoid Before…

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Fly&Dine’s Hotel Brunch Buffet Rules

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You want to brunch, son? You want to buffet like a baller? Then drop the soup and listen to me. I’ve been hitting hotel brunch buffets since Justin Bieber was in short pants (he still is, though, right?). I know the secrets of the steam trays. I’m cool with the curiosities of carving stations. I’m…

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Brilliant Food Hack: Pizza Cutter to the Rescue

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Let’s talk about salads for a second. I like eating salads. I hate making salads. Seriously, there is some sort of vortex that I fall into whilst making a salad that legitimately makes the final product taste worse. Chopping, mixing, assembling. Too much damn work for me. If you give me the same salad in…

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In-Flight Cocktail Hacks

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Stuck in an in-flight cocktail rut? Tired of the same old gin & tonic/rum & Coke/vodka cranberry options from the beverage cart? Bon Appetit is here to help.  Restaurant and drinks editor Andrew Knowlton, aka The Foodist, has come up with three cocktail hacks to transform your next sky drink into a much happier occasion.…

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The Genius LAX In & Out Burger Trick

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UPDATE 4/29/15: Is this trick dead? Read about the Parking Spot’s big changes right over here. An ENORMOUS tip of the hat to the ladies of Heels First Travel for this incredible trick that gets you a ride to LA’s famous In & Out Burger and back to LAX FOR FREE. Got a layover and…

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