How to Minimize Your Environmental Footprint at Home (and Save Money!)

November 24, 2020 Erica Ho 4 minute read

No more jet-setting half around the world on a whim, eh?

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Family Food Leisure Trip Planning

How To Find Farms To Go Fruit Picking

October 20, 2020 Laura Kiniry 3 minute read

In need of some adorable goat and alpaca pics for the Instagram feed? How about a bushel or two of apples to make your own hot cider? You’re in luck!

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Adventure Food Health

Three Campfire Recipes To Up Your Outdoor Dining Game

October 15, 2020 Erica Ho 5 minute read

Ready to cook over an open fire?

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Adventure Food Leisure Trip Planning

How to Elevate Campfire Cooking Beyond Burgers

September 22, 2020 Laura Kiniry 4 minute read

Now that the pandemic has made us all camping experts, it’s time to elevate the outdoor food game.

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Culture & Science Food Hotels

The Official DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Is Here.

April 14, 2020 Erica Ho 2 minute read

It’s time for us to enter a brave new world, and transform ourselves from travel bloggers to food bloggers. 😂

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Culture & Science Features Food Ladies

Celebrate Travel With Jerrie Mock’s Moroccan Chicken Bastilla Recipe

November 21, 2019 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Forget pumpkin pie, how about kicking off the most gluttonous season of the year with a recipe from the first woman who flew around the world?

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Food Gear Reviews Trip Planning

Review: The AeroPress Go Is the Better AeroPress (Even If You Don’t Travel)

November 13, 2019 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Sometimes, if we’re lucky, a product will come along every few years that is actually better than the toaster. Enter the AeroPress Go.

Review: The AeroPress Go Is the Better AeroPress (Even If You Don’t Travel) via @maphappy

Food Health

The Case for Packing Condiments, the Unsung Hero for Meals on the Run

August 26, 2019 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

Sometimes traveling means admitting… life resembles #hobodom much more than Instagram #superstardom you’d like to admit.

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Food Health Packing

Does Bringing Food on a Plane Count Toward the Carry-On Limit?

June 4, 2019 Erica Ho 1 minute read

Presumably, this food is for eating. Because there are soooo many good reasons to bringing own food onboard to eat, instead of succumbing and paying for something three times more than it should.

Does Bringing Food on a Plane Count Toward the Carry-On Limit? via @maphappy

Food Hotels Lodging

The Quickest Way To Deal With a Hotel Room That Has No Microwave

November 5, 2018 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

No, there’s no stupid “steam the veggies in the shower” trick here.

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Features Food Health Transit

This Recipe Will Use Up all the Food in the Fridge Before a Trip

August 2, 2018 Erica Ho 2 minute read

It’s time to get rid of everything in the fridge, cause the last thing you want is some… funkier mushrooms.

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Food Guides Hacks Hotels Lodging

How To Cook in a Hotel Room in its Full Ghetto Gloriousness

May 29, 2018 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

Nothing says *first-class travel* like… making a grilled cheese on a hotel iron?

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Business Food Gear Health Hotels

Cooking Gadgets for the Road That You Never Knew You Needed

May 1, 2018 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Did you know it is possible to soft-boil an egg in a coffee pot? Neither did I, but living on the road does weird things to a person.

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Customs Documentation Flights Food Security Transit

How To Carry On All the Duty-Free Liquids You Want On the Plane

April 10, 2018 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Because I’m starting to figure out middle age (especially without children) is learning about how to pass the time until death comes, alcohol has taken a more prominent cornerstone in my life. So when local liquors are particularly cheap, someone’s wallet takes more notice at the airport.

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Flights Food Leisure Transit

More Cocktail Recipes for Getting Smashed on the Next Flight

March 27, 2018 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

It’s not St. Paddy’s day anymore. I know that.

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Culture & Science Features Flights Food Transit

Behind the Mystery (and Science) of Airline Food

February 21, 2018 Erica Ho 5 minute read

For better or for worse, airline food is a mystery. How does the food get there? How is it prepared? Do they just stick in a microwave oven? Is that real white meat, like McDonalds’ claims?

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Food Misc. Polls

The Pasta Option on Turkish Airlines, JFK-IST

April 7, 2017 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

First of all, I don’t know why the pasta option dominates. Is there a grudge against chicken?

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Airlines Flights Food Reference Charts Transit

Believe It or Not, Almost Every Airline Offers Free Snacks (For Now)

December 6, 2016 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

Between all the flip flopping with airline policies, I’ve had more consistent Tinder dates.

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Food Hotels Lodging Luxury Money

An Ode to the Hotel Minibar (No Touching!)

May 11, 2016 Sam Wright Fairbanks Less than a minute to read

There are only so many five-dollar bags of chips and six-dollar cans of diet coke someone can consume before they ask, “What’s the point of it all?”

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Food Health Technology Trip Planning

Empty Kitchen? These Tips Will Prevent You From Being Hangry After a Trip

April 12, 2016 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Nothing is worse than coming home to an empty fridge. The second worst thing? Being forced to eat greasy takeout.

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Airlines Flights Food

The Alcoholic’s Mixology Guide for Getting Trashed on a Flight

November 22, 2015 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

How do you think I survive the holidays? It’s all about pregaming.

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Food Hotels Lodging Trip Planning

Foodie Alert, These Are the Best Hotel Restaurants in the World

November 4, 2015 Karina Martinez-Carter 3 minute read

The hotel restaurant shouldn’t always be a last resort. In some cases—like these—it deserves to be first choice.

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Culture & Science Features Food Misc.

The Geographic Origins of the World’s Most Popular Cocktails

October 21, 2015 Erica Ho Less than a minute to read

The best part about flying Singapore Airlines is that the flight attendants make you Singapore Slings so you can get crazy drunk and conk out for the rest of the flight.

The Geographic Origins of the World’s Most Popular Cocktails via @maphappy

Food Gear Health Reviews Trip Planning

The Many Adventures of Traveling with the AeroPress

October 7, 2015 Erica Ho 5 minute read

The AeroPress needs no introduction. For years, its taunted me on Amazon as the best, “the best” coffee maker for brewing coffee. But it looked like it belonged in a science lab. Just give me a regular French Press, please.

The Many Adventures of Traveling with the AeroPress via @maphappy

Airbnb Food Health Hostels Packing Trip Planning Vacation Rentals

The Cooking Essentials for Traveling

August 27, 2015 Erica Ho 4 minute read

Because I am not food snob, I promise. Besides, the doctor told me to lighten up on the steak au poivre.

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Food Gear Reviews Travel Trip Planning

Consider the GoBites Duo If You’re a Traveling Foodie

April 21, 2015 Erica Ho 5 minute read

You could argue that spending money on a travel spork is either one of the most useful or useless things ever. I live to eat so I don’t care.

Consider the GoBites Duo If You’re a Traveling Foodie via @maphappy

Airlines Flights Food Popular Posts Reference Charts Travel Trip Planning

The Picky Eater’s Guide to Airline Food

April 9, 2015 Melissa Roskowski 2 minute read

It takes extra planning, constant ingredient checking and explaining that chicken is, in fact, meat when traveling as a vegetarian.

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Features Food Health Packing Travel Trip Planning

Bringing the Comforts of Home Along on a Trip

January 14, 2015 Erica Ho 3 minute read

The most common complaint I ever hear from people traveling is that they miss the comforts of home. I have solved this problem for you because I am just as lazy at home as when I’m traveling.

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Food Packing Reference Charts Travel Trip Planning

The Guide to Carrying on Holiday Foods and Goodies

November 25, 2014 Karina Martinez-Carter 2 minute read

Thanksgiving and the holidays: It’s peak travel time, peak chow time, and, if you’re like me and wanting to cling for a taste from home, peak traveling with chow time.

The Guide to Carrying on Holiday Foods and Goodies via @maphappy

Food Packing Travel Trip Planning

How To Bring a Pumpkin Pie on the Plane

November 24, 2014 Erica Ho 2 minute read

Nothing says adulthood like learning to make a pumpkin pie from scratch. I’ve already started baking pumpkin and salty honey pies in prep for a real gutfest.

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Food Health Packing Travel Trip Planning

The Best Snacks for Traveling

September 9, 2014 Erica Ho 4 minute read

“You have hollandaise sauce on your performance fleece,” my eating companion muttered to me last week. And this was just at a stationary dining table. Throw in travel and we now have a recipe for disaster.

The Best Snacks for Traveling via @maphappy

Airbnb Food Gear Packing Reviews Trip Planning Vacation Rentals

This Travel Spice Rack is Perfect for Vacation Rentals

April 24, 2014 Erica Ho 4 minute read

At first glance, the Mobile Foodie Survival Kit looks like another pretentious piece of Brooklyn hipster swag. Despite that, its actually a great spice rack if you’re going away for extended periods of time.

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Food Hotels Lodging Trip Planning

Put Your Junk in the Ice Bucket To Keep It Fresh

May 1, 2012 Amanda Tong Less than a minute to read

Luckily, there are no missing kidneys involved in this story. But the ice bucket is a great tool for, well, keeping things cooled overnight if there’s no fridge available.

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Food Packing Trip Planning

How Not To Pack Frozen Food on a Flight

April 25, 2012 Erica Ho 2 minute read

If you know Paris, then you know why I packed frozen food on a 23-hour flight. The question was whether or not it would actually get home – in edible condition.

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Airlines Flights Food Trip Planning

Flight Basics: Learn to Pack Your Own Food

March 19, 2012 Erica Ho 1 minute read

Who can even remember what airline food tastes like these days? I mean, it’s almost a blessing they’ve scrapped food on domestic flights entirely.