Welcome to the site of award-winning travel and food writer Andrew Bender. Andrew covers travel and the business of travel for Forbes, Lonely Planet guide books, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications and appears as a public speaker on travel and food. He specializes California and Japan, but he’ll go pretty much anywhere for a good story.
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Coming This Year: New Low-Fare Airline Linking U.S., Japan, Korea
A new low-fare airline between the United States and Asia is set to take off in autumn 2022. Northern Pacific…
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9 Trends That Defined Food & Dining in 2021
This year more than ever, headlines — from the Covid-19 pandemic to racial reckoning, TikTok to digital tech — have…
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Meditations On America: The Man In The Rock, Big Sky, Montana
I knew that Montana was called Big Sky Country, but I always assumed that was just a nickname on license…
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COVID-19 Cancels 2020, 2021 James Beard Awards As Foundation Rethinks Bias, Diversity
In any normal year, the James Beard Awards would be the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Grammys of America’s restaurant world,…