BARRELS, BANS, AND BUFFET BUGS

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 060826 Original Broadcast Date: 06/08/26 Cruise news this week runs the full range from genuinely cool to genuinely alarming. On the cool end: Holland America has loaded bourbon barrels onto all eleven of its ships in partnership with Jefferson's Bourbon, the same distillery famous for aging whiskey at sea. Six months of ocean movement, salt air, and shifting climates produce a flavor profile that can't be replicated on land. Each ship gets its own barrel, each barrel yields 150 to 300 bottles, and you can only buy them on board starting in 2027. Your floating hotel is now a floating distillery. On the alarming end: Royal Caribbean and MSC are confiscating Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses at the gangway after passengers were caught secretly recording fellow cruisers at pools, in casinos, and in buffet lines. MSC banned them everywhere. Royal Caribbean bans them in restrooms, kids areas, and the casino, and if yours are prescription, they suggest you bring a backup pair. Welcome to your relaxing vacation. Meanwhile over a hundred passengers on the Caribbean Princess are riding out a confirmed norovirus outbreak with days still left on their cruise. The CDC confirmed it. This is the second Princess ship to go down this year. The first outbreak in March took nearly 200 people. And Carnival has replaced the barbecue station on several ships with Chicken, Waffles and Waves. Half the passengers love it. The other half want their pulled pork back and they are not being quiet about it. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details New episodes:  Monday 9am (ET) 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Email Elizabeth: [email protected] Executive Producer: Michael Serio Why Listeners Tune In ✔ The latest food & travel insights—every week ✔ Homemade videos of healthy, easy-to-make recipes ✔ No-holds-barred interviews on a LIVE, fast-paced, nationwide call-in show ✔ Elizabeth Dougherty: Writer, trained chef, world traveler, and award-winning talk show host ✔ First to bring expert insights on GMOs ✔ A true LIVE SHOW—NO "Best Of" reruns! ✔ Hard-hitting topics & interviews—no recycled political spin ✔ Engaged social media presence—200,000+ followers