Belle Cushing from Bon Appétit sat down with TV host, author and chef Anthony Bourdain as he gave advice about how to think about food when traveling, something that Bourdain has lots of knowledge about with over 200 travel days per year.

Do you eat the plane food?
Never. No one has ever felt better after eating plane food. I think people only eat it because they're bored. I don’t eat on planes. I like to arrive hungry.

What if you’re on a super-long flight?
You just don’t eat?For a super-long flight, I'd order cheese and shit load of port. I'd eat some cheese and drink myself stupid.

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Where should I travel now?
Beirut. The food's delicious, the people are awesome. It's a party town. And everything wrong with the world is there. Hopefully, you will come back smarter about the world. You’ll understand a little more about how uninformed people are when they talk about that part of the world. You’ll come back as I did: changed and cautiously hopeful and confused in the best possible way. Travel at its best defies expectations. Yes, it's divided. There are Shia neighborhoods, Christian areas—but they all go to the same restaurants. You can go from bikinis by the pool to Hezbollah in an 8-minute cab ride. They all coexist in a weird way. That's part of the thing that makes Beirut so interesting.

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