• Lickable wallpaper: Sounds gross, but it's sweet

    Jaffa Cakes via Rex

    A woman tries the lickable McVitie's Jaffa Cakes wallpaper in a London elevator.

    By Vidya Rao

    In most metropolitan cities, you’d be loath to touch the elevator walls, let alone lick them. But thanks to a new installation in London, the lickable wallpaper dreamed up in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” is now a reality.

    Employees at Engine, a communications firm, recently got their first taste of the wallpaper, which features 1,325 McVitie's Jaffa Cakes and is posted to one of the building’s elevators. It’s called Spot of Jaffa, and was created by mad scientist chef Heston Blumenthal and Damien Hirst. The project took a team of food technicians and artists four weeks to develop with the hope of encouraging some sweet stress-relief.


    If you’re wondering what a Jaffa Cake is, you must not be from the U.K., where these little treats are popular. Jaffa Cakes look like cookies, have a sponge-cake base, a layer of orange-flavored jelly and are coated in chocolate.

    And if you’re thinking about how unhygienic this is, don’t worry. According to The Sun newspaper, every Jaffa Cake can only be licked once, as a bell boy removes the saliva-doused stickers.

    The licking frenzy may soon spread to other offices in London, depending on the reception at Engine.

    Tell us, if you had lickable wallpaper, what flavor would you want it to be?

    Vidya Rao is an editor at TODAY.com. She used to lick cookies just to avoid sharing them with her siblings. 

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  • Feast your eyes: Savory food photos from around the world

    Ruhani Rabin

    Bamboo rice -- mountain rice cooked with shrimp, wood ear mushrooms and bamboo shoots steamed in a bamboo shell.

    There's nothing like gorgeous food photos to whet your appetite and inspire the culinary adventurer within you. Each week, we showcase some of the best images from readers who've traveled the globe in search of exciting eats or slaved over the stove to make a luscious creation. Send in your photos below, and be sure to tell us what makes your picture so interesting — including where it was taken and a detailed description of the dish.

    Now it's your turn! Send in your own fabulous food photo and make sure to tell us about the dish and where you had it.

  • It's A Snap! Travel photos that take you around the world

    David DiFiore

    Zion National Park

    Can't be without a camera while traveling? Love to pore over photos of far-off places?

    If you answered yes, check out It's A Snap, our gallery of reader-submitted travel pics. From the stunning landscape of Zion National Park in Utah to playful polar bears on the Hudson Bay in Manitoba to a few stunning sunsets in Hawaii, this week's gallery will take you around the world in just a few minutes.

    Vote on your favorite photo and then upload your own for a chance to be a part of the next gallery.

    Pat McClellan

    Polar Bears on Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba

     

     Click here to see the full gallery and submit your own shots.

  • Fabulous fall foliage photos

    Courtesy of Travel+Leisure

    The orange-yellow colors of carotenoids always exist in leaves, but they're usually masked by green chlorophyll until autumn comes.

    By Joshua Pramis, Travel + Leisure

    There’s an excitement in the air each fall, when summer’s heat gives way to refreshingly brisk breezes, ushering in jacket-and-scarf weather. Most spectacularly, it’s time for the natural spectacle of leaves shedding their green for fiery reds, oranges and yellows.

    Slideshow: Fall foliage photos

    Fall foliage season, which unfolds from September through November, amps up the beauty of any landscape — and inspires people to travel, whether road tripping or hiking on leaf-strewn paths. (It’s also inspired that questionable nickname: leaf-peepers.) When you find yourself in a prime foliage spot, have your camera at the ready because you’ll want to take those breathtaking scenes back home with you.

    It’s a natural impulse, so when we asked Travel + Leisure readers to submit their best nature photographs, we weren’t surprised that they uploaded a plethora of foliage shots. We’ve picked out our favorite images, which showcase a range of destinations and each bring a little extra something to this ever-popular photography subject.

    One striking image comes from across the Atlantic: Windsor, England. The photographer captures the lovely autumn colors adorning soon-to-be-shedding trees as well as the choice backdrop of Windsor Castle, a stately structure dating back to the 11th century, when William the Conqueror began its construction.

    Back stateside, in Massachusetts, one reader focused on a road flanked by golden trees on either side; many leaves lie on either side of the road as well and still retain their vibrant color. The road seems to belong to some enchanting, long-forgotten fairy tale. A photo from New Hampshire’s North Conway doubles the viewing pleasure by showing multicolored trees reflected in a lake.

    If the photos we had to leaf through (pun entirely intended) are any indication of the reality, then it’s not hard to find a magical foliage setting. In fact, New England is having an especially brilliant season this year thanks to an early September chill and heavy rains.

    So what are you waiting for? It’s prime viewing time. Grab your camera and go capture your memories — these photos will give you ideas for how to compose your own.

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  • It's a Snap! Click on these pics

    Peter McIntosh

    Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia

    Can't be without a camera while traveling? Love to pore over photos of far-off places?

    If you answered yes, check out It's A Snap, our gallery of reader-submitted travel pics. From the Manhattan skyline at dusk to the inside of Rome's Colosseum to rhinos grazing on the shore of Lake Nakuru in Kenya, this week's gallery will take you around the world in just a few minutes.

    Vote on your favorite photo and then upload your own for a chance to be a part of the next gallery.

    Anita Scott

    Mount Rainier, Washington state

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  • It's a Snap! Check out these travel pics

    Michael Snowden

    Zoroaster Temple in Grand Canyon National Park

    Can't be without a camera while traveling? Love to pore over photos of far-off places?

    If you answered yes, check out It's A Snap, our gallery of user-submitted travel pics. From the dramatic Alaskan landscape to a rainbow near Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls to the majestic Matterhorn in Switzerland, this week's gallery will take you around the world in just a few minutes.

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    Tod Carroll

    Glacier Bay, Alaska

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  • It's A Snap! Check out these travel pics

    Connie Ruprich

    Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park in Big Island, Hawaii

    Can't be without a camera while traveling? Love to pore over photos of far-off places?

    If you answered yes, check out It's A Snap, our gallery of user-submitted travel pics. From Oregon's rugged coastline to a baby elephant traipsing through water in Botswana to the Great Wall of China, this week's gallery will take you around the world in just a few minutes.

    Vote on your favorite photo and then upload your own for a chance to be a part of the next gallery.

    Nichola Brain

    Chobe National Park, Botswana

     

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  • It's A Snap! Check out these travel pics

    Tod Carroll

    Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska

    Can't be without a camera while traveling? Love to pore over photos of far-off places?

    If you answered yes, check out It's A Snap, our gallery of user-submitted travel pics. From a trio of giraffes on the Serengeti to Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier to the Pacific Coast Highway, this week's gallery will take you around the world in just a few minutes.

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    Richard Lynch

    Giraffes in the Serengeti

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