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To Eat or Not to Eat at 35,000 Feet–Part 3

If you are taking off this summer on a much-needed family vacation you might want to pack some extra dough. In a series I dubbed “To Eat or Not to Eat at 35,000 Feet” I have been detailing the menu options available on major airlines that service the United States. If you are traveling on a budget I would suggest packing your own meals and snacks (especially if you are flying with young children), but if you are flying solo and need a few calories to keep your stomach quiet until you land you might consider the following options offered … Continue reading →

To Eat or Not to Eat at 35,000 Feet–Part 2

I’ve written extensively about menu options offered by major U.S. carriers. Most of my blogs either spoke to the lack of food options for those in coach or the extravagant dishes offered to those lucky enough to travel in style up in the first-class cabin. With the chaotic summer travel season in full swing I thought it would be helpful to revisit the topic of “Eats at 35,000 Feet.” In my last blog I began my list detailing who’s serving what and how much it’s going to cost you to munch in mid-flight? Here’s a continuation of that list: Frontier … Continue reading →

To Eat or Not to Eat at 35,000 Feet

These days unless you are packing some serious green or you tote a cooler on a plane as a carry on then you likely will be stuck eyeing the ham and Swiss wrap your seatmate is munching on during your five-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles. Attention summer leisure travelers (you know, all of you vacationers who fly once or twice a year): If you aren’t already aware, the majority of airlines no longer offer free meals on domestic flights. If you aren’t clear of what is being served (or not served) on domestic flights these days the … Continue reading →

First-Class Eats at 35,000 Feet

There’s nothing like sinking your teeth into an appetizer of sautéed prawns and crispy short rib wontons with organic Thai barbecue sauce and chilled sweet-and-sour cucumber relish, right? Yeah right. Most of us will never get to wrap our lips around an appetizer that fancy in a traditional restaurant let alone in a flying fortress 35,000 feet in the air. But that’s how good life can be if you fly first-class these days. While complimentary meals are all but a distant memory for most of us coach passengers a few rows up first-class cruisers are dining on gourmet meals made … Continue reading →

First Class Eats for Train Passengers

We all know airline passengers get the royal treatment in first-class, but what about high paying passengers who prefer to travel by train? Don’t shed a tear for them, it appears they are making out just as well as their high flying counterparts—especially when it comes to first-class cuisine. The travel world is a buzz with the news that one of Washington’s best-known chefs, Michel Richard, has developed a new menu for first-class passengers on Amtrak’s high-speed Boston to Washington route. For those of you who don’t watch the Food Network or don’t keep tabs on who’s who in the … Continue reading →

Rating Airline Food

In the past I have blogged about the various food items available for purchase on different airlines. I even confessed that I have (on a number of flights) forked over way too much money to dine on way too little portions. And, that’s not saying anything about the actual quality of the meals. So imagine my surprise when I opened a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal and saw that the paper’s staff had made it their mission to “find the best of these unfree lunches.” The paper’s test began by “procuring sample snack boxes from six carriers — … Continue reading →