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Roads and Kingdoms

Food, travel, journalism—and a new way to be part of it. R&K Insiders. http://roadsandkingdoms.com

Roads & Kingdoms is an independent journal of food, politics, travel and culture. Now launching The League of Travelers, the world's deepest culinary tours

17/12/2025

🇵🇹What’s on the menu in Madeira?

Swipe to see some of what we’re eating this spring when we take on Madeira in one Very Big Week on the impossibly verdant main island, one of the few places on earth, as chef Andy Ricker () is fond of pointing out, where bananas and wine grapes grow together.

Together with the Portuguese culinary icon André Magalhães (), Andy will walk us through the flavors of a place so green that one of the first Portuguese sailors to see it exclaimed that it was just “one large garden.” And a garden it has remained, through nearly six centuries of human habitation, through slavery and sugarcane, through extinctions and evolution and the current cultural rebirth.

📍Mighty Madeira: The World in One Island. April 19-26, 2026

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14/12/2025

On a bone-cold Tuesday night in Chinatown NYC, we gathered a group of friends and accomplices to celebrate the launch of our first-ever print magazine, an 144-page, art-filled leap of faith in the idea that there’s an appetite for deeply felt, clear-eyed, good-humored storytelling on food, travel, and all that’s in between.

Over lemongrass snail sausage, Bia hơi, and natural wines from the geniuses at .nyc and .nyc at their newest space .nyc, we talked about R&K’s beginnings as a half-baked Tumblr dreamed up in Yangon. We talked about the bolt from the blue that was Anthony Bourdain, the way our former partner’s passing left us adrift in more ways than one, and how much it means to be putting out a magazine now that feels like the clearest manifestation of what we’ve been about since the beginning.

In attendance were so many of the people who make R&K what it is, from co-founders and and executive editor ; and the artist behind our first print cover ; to Bourdain-era collaborators like , , and ; and indispensable members of the R&K team .jauregui, , and . Inumerable thanks to everyone who came through and helped make the night a fitting throw-down for this auspicious moment.

But maybe we buried the lead. The magazine is here in our hands, and it’s a thing of beauty. Get yours at the link in our bio, directly from our store or included in Insiders membership.

10/12/2025

🎁 Wondering what to give the food and travel enthusiast in your life?

How about a year of Roads & Kingdoms through our new three-tiered membership? Swipe for more ideas from our world of food, travel, and foreign correspondence.

Link in bio to shop the list!

04/12/2025

We’ve been cooking this up for a while: a new League of Travelers journey created in partnership with Phaidon () and inspired by the launch of Franco Pepe: Pizza Chef—the definitive book on the man who reshaped the global idea of pizza.

Our culinary guide is the world’s greatest pizzaiola himself, Franco Pepe (), joined by food writer Eugenio Signoroni () and R&K co-founder Nathan Thornburgh (). Together, we’ll trace the landscapes and coastal towns that built Campania’s culinary identity—an inland-to-sea pilgrimage showing, ingredient by ingredient, why pizza is the world’s most deceptively simple dish.

We start in Caiazzo, Franco’s home terrain, with rare time inside his temple of Campanian flavor, Pepe in Grani (), plus a tasting with Elisia Menduni (), co-author of the new book. Then: warm bufala at Il Casolare; riccio tomatoes in Piana di Monte Verna; anchovy masters in Cetara; citrus groves in Punta Campanella; and the ancient olive trees of the Lattari Mountains.

Along the way, we’ll meet the growers and families behind Campania’s essential ingredients—the people who give Franco’s philosophy its depth and his pizzas their soul. The week ends back in Caiazzo with a private pizza lesson from Franco and a finale dinner that brings everything—from flour to fire to fermentation—full circle.

Link in bio for details. DM to secure your spot.

03/12/2025

🇪🇸What’s on the menu in Asturias?

Swipe to see some of what we’re eating this May on our weeklong journey through mar y montaña, featuring a mountaintop fire-feast, a beachside seafood cookout, and a visit to the secret cheese caves of a gamonéu master, and breaking bread with our friends who run some of the most dynamic restaurants in Spain.

Led by the charismatic Asturian fixer and filmmaker Alejo Sabugo () and R&K executive editor Charly Wilder (), this is a culinary adventure through one of the most fascinating, delicious, and distinctive corners of Europe.

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02/12/2025

You may not know his name, but you definitely know his work: the melting orange face, the beheaded Statue of Liberty held aloft, Mayor Mamdani on the subway.

When it came time to choose the cover artist for our inaugural print issue, there was one clear choice: Edel Rodriguez (), the Cuban-American artist and long-time R&K collaborator behind some of the most iconic magazine covers of the past two decades.

Swipe to learn more about Rodriguez, his fascinating childhood journey from Havana to the United States, and the images that helped shape the political imagination of a generation.

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[Cover images: The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, Time]

28/11/2025

🇮🇹What’s on the menu in Rome and Lazio?

Swipe to see some of what we’re eating this spring when bestselling food writer Katie Parla () leads us on a journey to trace the roots of Roman cuisine from the ancient cattle markets of the capital to the wild hills of southern Lazio—where monks once foraged, popes retreated, and lamb still reigns.

📍Rome and the Fertile Lands of Lazio: Apr 12–18, 2026. To join: roadsandkingdoms.com/league or at the link in our bio.

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26/11/2025

🇮🇹We’re heading back to Sicily—this time to the island’s wild western edge.

Wondrous Western Sicily is a new League of Travelers journey tracing the coast from Marsala to Palermo: a week of wind, salt, wine, and wheat. Led by influential Italian food writer Eugenio Signoroni () and the peripatetic culinary scout Gonzalo Gil Lavedra (.gonzalo), it’s a deep dive into the rhythms of Sicilian life far from the crowds of Taormina and Noto.

Wondrous Western Sicily: June 22-29, 2026.

We’ll visit vineyards and wheat fields, the salt pans of Marsala, and the kitchens of Palermo. There’s a ferry to Favignana for lunch straight from the morning catch, and long evenings over Marsala wines as the sea air drifts in.

Visit the link in bio for more info or DM us to secure your spot this June.

21/11/2025

🇦🇴What’s on the menu in Angola?

Swipe to see some of what we’re eating this spring when we journey from the vibrant capital of Luanda, one of the oldest cities in sub-Saharan Africa, to verdant, volcanic Lubango and onto the desert beaches of Namibe.

Guided by Chef Helt Araújo (), one of the country’s great culinary minds and a leader of its current reinvention, along with Angolan writer Cláudio Silva () and Portuguese chef André Magalhães (); we will dine in open-air markets and elegant urban restaurants, taste Angolan wines at a private chef’s dinner on the beach, and join an indigenous tribe for a whole-goat roast.

📍Eternal Angola: May 14-21, 2026. To join: roadsandkingdoms.com/league or at the link in our bio.

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17/11/2025

🇹🇭 By foot, by plane, by private vehicle, by speedboat—this journey traces an ancient trade route through the heart of Indochina, from the mountain-jungle island of Phuket to the slow-paced coastal gem of Songkhla to the lush rice fields of Phatthalung.

Join us for an extraordinary weeklong culinary adventure designed and led by the renowned chef Andy Ricker () and Phongsila “Mapeng” Comack (), one of Thailand’s most connected and compelling culinary ambassadors.

Built on Andy and Mapeng’s deep love for the region and their many friendships in the South, the trip pairs Michelin-level private dining with the country’s best curries, humble yet glorious noodles, and, of course, excellent seafood.

📍Link in bio to join or visit us here: roadsandkingdoms.com/league

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16/11/2025

Introducing the Roads & Kingdoms Store.

This week, in addition to a global membership and new wave of print and digital editorial, we launched our official online shop. In the Roads & Kingdoms Store, you’ll find every title we’ve ever made, our magazine, some product collabs, and a curation of books and prints from our friends and partners.

📍Check it out at roadsandkingdoms.com/store or at the link in bio!

13/11/2025

Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1: Pleasure-Seeking in a Deranged World is here.

Our first-ever (!) print magazine features 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from our favorite writers, artists, and photographers around the world. The issue opens with a Letter from the Editor written by R&K co-founder Matt Goulding () directly to our late partner, Anthony Bourdain, and includes reporting from Gaza, Lagos, Rome, California, and Caracas, as well as “The R&K 50,” our definitive, unranked list of the restaurants across the globe that our favorite chefs, writers, and culinary thinkers think of as second homes.

Cover art by the great Edel Rodriguez (). Also inside: Palisa Anderson (), Dan the Automator, Samaa Emad (.gaza), Roham Fayazi (), Jeff Fierberg (), Ana Paulina García (), Calvin Godfrey (), Karl Taro Greenfeld, Juliana Huxtable (), Michael Magers (), Richard Manders (.manders), Virgilio Martinez (), Matty Matheson (), Juan Escalona Melendez (), Nengi Nelson (), Lauren Oyler (), Katie Parla (), Eric Ripert (), Andy Ricker (), René Redzepi (), Amber Share (), Eugenio Signoroni (), Rafa Tonon (), Wana Udobang (), Sam Youkilis () and many more.

Co-founders & Publishers: Nathan Thornburgh () and Matt Goulding ()
Executive Editor: Charly Wilder ()
Editor at Large: José Andrés ()
Creative Lead: Doug Hughmanick ()
Art Direction and Design: Kultura ()

📍Visit the link in bio to learn more and secure your copy. Order now and receive it before the holidays.

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