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    Our first “Married” Christmas in Cusco, Peru

    To celebrate our first Christmas as a married couple, we decided to fly to Peru, and eat and drink our way from Cusco to Machu Picchu to Lima. Here’s part one of our oral history of that trip: Christmas in Cusco. Day 1: Views of Peru, Papachos, and Piscos Megan: I slept through most of our flights to Peru. And when I woke up, I got to see breathtaking views of the green AF mountains of Cusco — mountains I’d soon be climbing on our trek to Machu Picchu! Mike: But first, we had three nights to acclimatize in Cusco. It’s over 11k feet, and the altitude takes some getting…

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    October 26, 2017

    #Morocstars: Our quick and mind-blowing Marrakech food tour

    October 5, 2017

    The perfect recipe for a weekend trip to the Santa Ynez Valley

    October 16, 2017
  • Travel

    You absolutely need to take a trip to Nara: The magical city of tame deer in Japan

    While we were in Kyoto, we decided to take a day trip to Nara. This experience is why you absolutely need to schedule a trip to Nara during your time in Japan! Mike: On our last full day in Japan, we took the train to Nara… or as we call it: “The Place with the Tame Deer.” I wasn’t sure if we wanted to take a day trip an hour out of town when we still had so much to see in Kyoto, but I’m glad we stuck to the plan, because Nara is awesome. Megan: Nara was BY FAR my favorite part about the trip. I’d been itching to…

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    #Morocstars: Our quick and mind-blowing Marrakech food tour

    October 5, 2017

    How I packed for my weekend trip with one carry on

    November 20, 2017

    My answer to the question: “What should I do in Maui?”

    September 27, 2017
  • Style-ish

    All the Tanzania safari tips we wish we knew before we left

    We took a three-week Tanzania safari trip for our honeymoon. We did all the research, and perused every safari packing list, and yet we still found ourselves in the middle of the Serengeti wishing we had brought a few things. So here are all the Tanzania safari tips we either were glad to have known or we wished someone had told us…

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    10 tips for getting the most out of your The Taste LA Times weekend pass

    September 7, 2017

    Wifi while you eat: Our favorite restaurants with wifi in LA

    March 26, 2018

    The perfect recipe for a weekend trip to the Santa Ynez Valley

    October 16, 2017
  • Travel

    Eat, Don’t be Prey, Love: Our top 10 favorite safari honeymoon moments

    You may have already heard all about the hardest parts of our “Eat, Don’t be Prey, Love” safari honeymoon. But there were far more amazing parts! So we broke them down into this easy-to-digest Top 10 moments (mostly in chronological order):

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    Leaving a cat alone isn’t scary because of my team of robots

    June 19, 2016

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    October 16, 2017
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    Snow, swan boats and sulfur: Our quick trip to Hakone

    February 6, 2018
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    Snow, swan boats and sulfur: Our quick trip to Hakone

    Mike: Megan gets a little overwhelmed in New York, so I thought she might get triggered in Tokyo, being surrounded by endless skyscrapers. When we booked our trip to Japan, I scheduled a night in the mountain town of Hakone as a brief respite from the city. Turned out that Megan was just fine in Tokyo, but we’re still glad we hit this charming resort spot. Megan: After our six days in Tokyo, we jumped on the RomanceCar (the not-really-appropriate name for the very-ordinary train to Hakone) and left the city behind…

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    8 places to have an exceptional AF brunch in Atlanta

    June 13, 2018

    7 quick, good, and cheap restaurants on Melrose

    October 8, 2017

    The best restaurants in Ouarzazate (that are hopefully still in business!)

    October 6, 2017
  • Travel

    Drunk on kitsch and booze: Our first foodie trip to Tokyo

    Last year, Mike and I decided to take a last-minute foodie trip to Tokyo. It was both of our first times in Japan. Here’s Part One of our oral history: Our time in Tokyo. Day One: Shinjuku and Golden Gai Mike: We got our first taste of Japan on the train from the Haneda airport to our hotel in Shinjuku. People were extremely quiet and extremely courteous (even offering to help as I bumbled through buying a train ticket). There was no litter anywhere. And every element of life has been intelligently considered and perfectly engineered. Nothing in Japan happens by accident. Megan: I still don’t think I’ve had as…

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    Take the guess work out of where to eat with our epic Atlanta restaurants list

    December 4, 2017

    “Happy Hallowsemite!” Our last-minute weekend trip to Yosemite in October

    October 26, 2017

    Bites, bears, and Badmaash-ups: The Best of The Taste 2016

    October 11, 2016
  • Food

    Take the guess work out of where to eat with our epic Atlanta restaurants list

    Almost everyone working on The Gifted (the show Mike is currently producing) has asked us for “The List.” It’s our list of about 80 of the best Atlanta restaurants — places that we’ve either tried ourselves and recommend, or have been highly recommended to us (and we haven’t tried yet). This list takes the guess work out of where to eat in Atlanta. Want a certain type of food? Driving through a certain neighborhood? Want to find the closest best Atlanta restaurant? Check out our handy-dandy map! It’s so damn convenient that we decided to to share The List with everyone…

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    My ode to the best travel pet carrier ever

    October 10, 2017

    Gifts for drinkers and wine-lovers: The coolest & classiest alcohol gifts!

    December 13, 2017

    The perfect recipe for a weekend trip to the Santa Ynez Valley

    October 16, 2017
  • Travel

    #EatDrinkDesire part 2: In which we bring non-erotic softcore porn to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    We already filled you in on part one of our trip: My birthday experience in London. Now it’s time to tell you about Edinburgh — the trip you helped make possible. Here’s the Mike and Megan oral history of bring their softcore porn play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Mike: We arrived in the center of Edinburgh and walked to the Carnal Desire Team’s Scotland Street flat. One of two that we rented for our actors. It was a fairly nice place: big rooms, high ceilings, great location, and huge windows with views of gorgeous church steeples and green trees. Only problem: there was a single bathroom for six people.…

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    Watch this backwards and upside-down spin on Thai rolled ice cream

    November 3, 2017

    The “bacano” bites and best restaurants of Bogota

    October 4, 2017

    All the Tanzania safari tips we wish we knew before we left

    April 10, 2018
  • Travel

    #EatDrinkDesire: My birthday trip to London

    This is our oral history of my 35th birthday trip to London! Megan: Somewhere between LA and London, hovering between 34 and 35-years-old, as most of the plane slept, a flight attendant noticed that I was awake and excited told me to run up past first class (“tell ’em Selina sent you”) and look out the window to see the Northern Lights. With my heart pounding, I raced past the un-aware passengers, blew through curtains, avoided the feet of the lay-flat first class, and pressed my face up against the tiny window in an emergency exit door. Sure enough, there they were: Pale and bright green lights, shimmering in the…

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    The not-to-miss, best restaurants in Edinburgh

    October 6, 2017

    What to pack for Bogota with tips from someone who lives there

    October 4, 2017

    How to make a Pisco Sour (according to Peruvians)

    December 29, 2017
  • Food,  Travel

    The “bacano” bites and best restaurants of Bogota

    Bogota is an amazing foodie destination — one could even say it’s “bacano” — but it’s really underrated. It’s feels like New York with a South American flair. We were visiting friends who live in Colombia, and they took us to some of the best restaurants in Bogota. Where to stay if you want to walk to restaurants… We stayed at the Embassy Suites in Bogota. It’s a fairly nondescript business hotel, unremarkable, except for its fantastic location — Zona G. The G in “Zona G” is for “gastronomy,” and with good reason — it’s basically three square blocks of great restaurants! Here are the best restaurants in Bogota…

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    March 20, 2018

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    April 24, 2018

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