It's such a chore walking through the airport screening these days. Your shoes, outerwear, and jewelry come off, and your electronics and liquids have to be taken out of your bags and dumped into a tray. There's good news and bad news for passengers sick of these screening rituals. The good news: the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently announced that travelers won't have to Read more

Traveling cross-country or abroad this Summer? While you're able to easily find free WiFi in airports these days, you shouldn't just hop on the first free and available WiFi signal you can find and start browsing, shopping, or logging in to secure websites. Just as leaving your home network open and unprotected with a password can be dangerous, so is piggybacking on an unsecured WiFi signal in a Read more

Ring in Elvis Presley's 76th with a fool's gold loaf. — Serious Eats Obama has signed the record food safety bill into law. — Huffington Post Food Why it was a really bizarre year for California's Napa Valley. — Grub Street SF Could airport restaurant delivery be far off? — USA Today 2010's hottest US restaurants, according to Yelpers. — Yelp Blog Ranchers are pushing for horse meat Read more

Who says airports can't be fly? Rapper and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has decided to give Americans a newfound reason to travel by opening outposts of the 40/40 Club, his sports bar, at various airports across the United States, Slashfood reports. So if you've got any TSA dirt to get off your shoulder, rest assured that you can at least enjoy some eats and ESPN on the screen at the 40/40 while you're Read more

Here's seven delicious drink recipes that can easily be made in batches. — Huffington Post Food Must make: Spanish meatballs with romesco sauce. — Hands on Gourmet While it may be harder to get through the security line, it's easier to find a drink at the airport. — USA Today Learn how Grant Achatz creates a menu for Alinea. — GQ Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich are fighting protesters Read more

With heightened news coverage due to the impending holiday season, the new TSA security screening devices have many worried about privacy concerns, but some are also worried about potential exposure to radiation. There are two types of new body-scanning devices making their way to airports across the country: one that uses millimeter-wave technology, and a second that uses backscatter X-ray Read more

Two things that should never be sexed up are animal rights and airport security, but here we are. PETA's latest aggressive ad is of a woman's body in a bra and underwear, saying "Be proud of your body scan: go vegan." This makes two assumptions: first, deep down we care what TSA employees think of our bodies, and that fear is enough to change dietary habits. Fortunately, New York's LaGuardia and Read more

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