Plane Food

With humor and detail, Sadovnik pairs candid airline meal photos with unscientific ratings of his high-altitude culinary adventures.

This colorful guide gives plane food the spotlight it deserves, serving up sky-high in-flight meal critiques in a hilarious global travelogue with a side of wanderlust. Every year, Sadovnik, celebrated producer and electronic music DJ, logs tens of thousands of flight miles circling the globe on dozens of airlines to play DJ gigs and festivalsand, in the process, has written a wry travelogue from airline meals, which hes obsessively chronicled. This humorous catalog captures the skys most brilliant culinary creationsand its near-misses. Ranging from bleak to inspired, photographs of the oft-inventive personal-tray tablescapes from around the world are paired with simple, wholly unscientific meal descriptions, airlines, and rankingsfrom inedible to gourmeta gift book and illustrated memoir that truly captures the adventurous spirit of flight and the pleasures and perils of eating on the wing.

With an estimated 700 million individual passengers annually, air travel is an experience shared by an ever-growing slice of humanity. No matter where youre from or where youre headed, the ritual of deciphering mystery meals is a strangely universal one, uniting us all in midair moments of curiosity, delight, or dismay. Capturing this shared slice of sky-high culture,Plane Foodis a hilarious and oddly heartfelt tribute to the global quirks of in-flight diningproof that the real adventure begins with whatevers served at cruising altitude.