Seth kugel biography

During his time as The Frugal Traveler columnist for The New York Times, Seth Kugel traveled across the world on a quest for authentic travel experiences.
Seth Kugel, the New York Times’s “Frugal Traveler” from 2010 to 2016, has appeared on CBS This Morning, NPR, and BBC Travel.
Seth Kugel is a travel writer and videomaker best known (among Americans) for writing the Frugal Traveler column for The New York Times from 2010-2016 and.

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Seth Kugel writes the Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times. Not a lifelong travel writer, he has been a public school teacher in the Bronx, an immigrant services provider, a municipal bureaucrat, a stringer for the City section of the New York Times, and the Brazil correspondent for GlobalPost.com.

How did you get started traveling?

As soon as my parents thought my brother and me were old enough appreciate traveling, off we went. When I was 11 we spend the summer in London, which I thought was extraordinarily exotic, though now I’m more likely to be astonished by how much more it is like the United States than just about anywhere else. I loved it from the outset, but my first foray into “frugal” travel really changed how I wanted to travel. As a 15 year-old, when I went on a YMCA exchange program to Kenya and did the whole live-in-a-village, do-a-work-project thing. Despite coming home with Hepatitis A (that’s the feces-in-the-drinking-water kind), it was obvious to me that was the right kind of travel: uncomfortable and life-changing. Afte

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Seth Kugel is a travel writer and videomaker best known (among Americans) for writing the Frugal Traveler column for The New York Times from 2010-2016 and (among Brazilians) for hosting the Amigo Gringo YouTube channel, a series intended to help Brazilians understand New York City and American culture. He has been an elementary school teacher in the Bronx, an immigrant services provider in the Bronx, a reporter for the Times' City section in the Bronx and the Brazil correspondent for Global Post (in São Paulo, because you can't do that in the Bronx). Strangely, he has appeared frequently on Brazilian late-night TV, and even more strangely, occasionally fantasizes about being an economist, especially when he catches wind of an interesting data set. Seth lives in Jackson Heights, Queens where he is an enthusiastic consumer of Thai, Colombian, Uruguayan, Bangladeshi and Tibetan food in what is almost certainly the most diverse neighborhood in the city. But his favorite food of all time is farofa -- the toasted manioc flour served as a side dish in any Brazilian meal worth i

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Irreverent responses from our favourite travel ninjas.

Irreverent responses from our favourite travel ninjas.

2) Tourist must-see you think is actually a "must skip":

Statue of Liberty. Take a picture from the ferry, then get off at the real attraction, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

3) Your most stranded, "oh-my-[deity]" travel moment:

Getting the car stuck in a big mud puddle in the middle of nowhere in rural Nicaragua, with my 80 year-old father and ageless mother along for the ride.

4)Best (or worst) person/people you've had to sit next to while travelling:

A coca leaf salesman in Bolivia. Fun to learn about how the legal coca business works. Also, he was thin and smelled ok, key factors if you're going to sit next to me during a 36-hour ride in Bolivia.

5) Strangest meal abroad:

How about at home, and how about a day of meals? Kidney for breakfast, pigs feet for lunch, goat head soup for dinner, and cow eye tacos for dessert in Jamaica, Chinese, Nigerian and M