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Why You Pig Out on Vacation

usatoday
USA Today

April 18th, 2016

Alan Muskat, a culinary tour operator in Asheville, N.C., recently organized a dinner at the upscale Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where patrons feasted on Japanese beetles. They shelled out $275 per person for the privilege. Why? Travelers, he explains, yearn to “push their boundaries.”

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