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By JJ Goode, DETAILS

To gauge a sauce's flavor and spiciness, get acquainted with the chillies behind it.

Nothing is worse than empty calories at 30,000 feet. Most health experts will tell you to brown-bag it, but if there's no time to pick something up, you'll need a smart strategy for choosing from the in-flight menu. Nutritionist Keri Gans on what you can eat in the air so you'll feel sharp when you're back on the ground.

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By Nancy Kalish, DETAILS

Kicking nicotine and avoiding excessive sunlight will help, but the secret to healthy-looking skin is the food you eat. "The wrong choices cause inflammation down to the cellular level," says dermatologist Nicholas Perricone, the author of Forever Young, a book about how eating right can keep you looking younger than your years. "And while you can't see it, that inflammation leads directly to wrinkling, sagging, and premature aging." Here is what to eat to prevent that from happening.

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Last weekend marked the official unofficial start of summer, and you know what that means - crappy overcooked summer blockbusters. If you were already wary of explosions and aliens even before the season started, we've got a list of finely crafted, high-quality films, all certified robot and pirate free.

By Paul John Scott, DETAILS

I'm in a Panera Bread outlet. The company is on Fortune's 2010 list of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies and earned more than $1.3 billion in 2009, mainly from selling flour and sugar by the railcar. Last year, Zagat named it the most popular large chain in the United States and ranked it second in the Healthy Options category. The company responded by touting its "wholesome" food. Sure, Panera sells a few salads. But why do the scones, pastries, baguettes, and bear claws get all the good lighting? Why are the grab-and-go packs of cookies and brownies next to the register? What need is fulfilled by serving soup bowls made of bread, with a mound of bread for dipping, and then offering more bread on the side? How come it's noon and the couple behind me are eating bagels while the guy to my right is sawing into a cinnamon roll with a fork and a knife like it's a steak?

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During Tina Fey's promotional tour for her best-selling memoir, Bossypants, last month, New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick asked the comedian about the book's "unique" cover: "Tina, whose forearms are those? Are those Alec Baldwin's forearms?" Fey replied, "No, those are Alec Baldwin's feet. They Photoshopped them." That response wasn't good enough for Details, so we tracked down the man behind the woman. Literally. Meet Joe Rosario, the 52-year-old actor who you may (or may not) recognize from his roles on The Sopranos, Law and Order: SVU, and Ed. Below, Rosario talks about his cover shoot with Tina, forearm-grooming maintenance, and why he refuses to laugh at anything David Letterman finds funny.

DETAILS: Did you know you were going to appear on the cover of Bossypants during the shoot?

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Joe Rosario: I was just told it was a shoot for Tina Fey's book--I had no idea it was for the cover. I thought it was

Photo by Jennifer LivingstonKayleen Schaefer, DETAILS magazine

When Coltrane Curtis needs a break during the workday, he doesn't linger over a long lunch or head to the gym. He goes shopping. Recently, he picked up a pair of vintage Cazal aviators. One time, he bought a Zero Halliburton briefcase; another time, it was a $7,000 Leica camera.

Curtis, the 32-year-old owner of a marketing firm in New York, admits that he shops for clothes far more than his wife does. Evidence of this comes in the form of 600 pairs of sneakers stacked in boxes in the spare bedroom of his Tribeca apartment. In response to his habit, his wife has given him the kind of order that is usually heard coming from the mouths of grouchy sitcom husbands: Stop buying shoes.

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A couple of decades ago, the stereotypical man of the house unwound from a hard day by watching a game with a glass of something on ice. His wife? She went shopping. But whether it's because ads for

Photo by Matthew DonaldsonIan Daly, DETAILS magazine

On a sunny afternoon in June five years ago, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson proposed to his girlfriend, Natalie, at the top of a bell tower at Yale Divinity School, in the way that men have been doing for generations: He got down on one knee and presented a brilliant-cut diamond ring. After she accepted, they descended the steps and drove to her apartment to call friends and family. That's when things got weird: Natalie disappeared into the other room and returned with a small box. Before Wigg-Stevenson knew it, she'd performed an act that's becoming as common among the engaged as announcing a gift registry: She extracted a lightweight gold band with a Celtic knot pattern and gave it to her intended.

"It definitely caught me off guard," says Wigg-Stevenson, who works for a nonprofit. But at no point did his inner alpha chime in with thoughts such as What the hell is she doing? "I actually liked it," he says. "It makes more sense for both parties to have an engagement