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chain game; Somewhere among Orlando's 4,500 food courts, fast-food outlets, theme restaurants, and multi-unit concept chains, Jeffrey Steingarten discovers the tastes of the future.

Vogue

| June 01, 2004 | Steingarten, Jeffrey | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten

Our plane touched down at Orlando International Airport. My fellow passengers stampeded out of the cabin, grateful to have reached Orlando and their winter vacations. Me, I was not yet ready to be grateful. This would be no vacation. Far from it.

Sensing the approach of a flight attendant, who was surely wondering why I was the only passenger still sitting there (with the exception of an ancient woman waiting for a wheelchair), I crept unwillingly down the jetway. Soon the stale, recycled, body-temperature air of the cabin, rich in carbon dioxide and other organic wastes that we 200 passengers had for the past three hours ...

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