The 25-year-old actress takes local ingredients home with her and tries hard to get them through customs without being found out, reported Contactmusic.
"I love to go to cooking school when I travel and I like to smuggle ingredients home. I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA," Lively said.
"I'm stuffing them in teddy bears cut in half and put back together again and I've gotten really good at it, although now I'm talking about it, I'm sure customs will be all over me next time I go anywhere," she added.
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