TRAVEL

Big Apple beauty and bites

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Everyone knows that New York is home to some of the world’s most prestigious doctors, hair stylists and beauty providers. So I went to the Big Apple to take a bite out of some of the world’s best – in the nicest possible way.

Cool comfort

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“Great hotel design need not be confined to “first-tier” cities,” our Wanderer Jeremy Wayne writes. “And another thing, too: Retro-design be can cool and comfortable without being even a touch ironic.”

The dapper chef

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Chef Scott Conant, the stylish star of “Chopped,”on the virtues of Skippy, popcorn and Jet Blue; why he hates onions; and why he doesn’t think of himself as a success.

Alpine nirvana

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Scaling Italy’s largest valley glacier, Wonderful Dining columnist Aleesia Forni finds herself crossing the divide between being her parents’ child and being their protector.

The sun god’s journey to the moon

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An awe-inspiring new book by teNeues Publishing on the Apollo space program – timed to anticipate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing next summer – also offers a reminder of the classical, familial origins of the program’s name.

Aruba, a sun-kissed sojourn

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Called “The One Happy Island,” Aruba is about 19 miles long in the southern Caribbean Sea, just 15 miles from the coast of Venezuela. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao form a group referred to as the ABC Islands, with the A island getting more repeat visitors than any other in the Caribbean.