The man recreating airplane meals to get through lockdown
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Frequent flyer and airplane meal fan Nik Sennhauser hasn't been on a flight for a year. To get through lockdown, he's been going through photos and menus of his favorite inflight meals -- and teaching himself how to cook them from scratch.
(CNN) — Some of Nik Sennhauser's earliest memories are of longhaul flights -- and of eating on a plane. "The first time I got on a plane I was about five months old," he says. "I grew up between Austria and Thailand, so I'd be on a plane every two to three months or so.
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