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Don't Go Hungry: Our Favorite Travel Snacks

Air travel is becoming a less glamourous, less reliable form of transportation. Rather than be at the mercy of flight delays, holding patterns, airport cafeterias, in-flight food, and bumped flights (or honestly, disappointing food when you get where you're going), we bring snacks.  Not a jumbo-bag of Type-A crazy food, but a discreet supply of foodstuff that help us meet a bump in our schedule with a shrug or wake up in a faraway place with the taste of something familiar.   If you want to look at the subject of snacks through a cinematic angle, consider the Neil Simon film "The Out of Towners"  Jack Lemmon's poor character spent a flight, and an entire night, in un... read more>>