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Cheers. How to toast the travel show

By Chris Erskine
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Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

“Wanna see my bruise?”That’s just one of the off-beat moments from Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark panel kicking off the Los Angeles Times Travel Show Saturday morning. No worries. They¿re back Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Travel in Style Stage.The two spent a funny 45 minutes mixing destination cocktails: Thai tea leaves with vodka; fresh berries mixed with sparkling wine; Irish whiskey, Irish cream, crème de menthe.While the cocktails are fun, the chatter is the real draw here. ¿The biggest difference between breakfast and brunch is if you drink at breakfast, that¿s just sad,¿ said Ward, in introducing a cocktail.Ward and Hardstark became TV sensations after posting their video for a jocular cocktail called The McNuggetini, a drink made with McDonalds food. Their newest webseries, Classy Ladies With Alie & Georgia, is on CookingChanneltv.com, and they can also be seen on the upcoming season of Cooking Channel¿s Unique Sweets.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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