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Join Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh for this evolving travel podcast, currently on hiatus in 2023. Archives include long boozy global interviews and Anthony Bourdain-led deep dives. Always, though, beats have been by Dan the Automator, artwork by Daisy Dee, show art by Edel Rodriguez. All advertising proceeds go to NYC's Let Us Breathe Fund for which this show has raised thousands, even in hiatus. So thank you for listening.
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Here, to ring in this new year, is an ode to what should be the next great culinary star from the country of Georgia, the perfect vessel of unadorned cholesterol, the cosmic collision of flour, butter, egg and cheese: Khachapuri.
Links:
R&K weeklong culinary journeys: The League of Travelers
Georgian market tours: Meet Me Here Tbilisi
Mexico City Market Tours: Eat Like a Local
Market Tours everywhere else: Culinary Backstreets
Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light
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Now that it's cold and flu (and COVID) season, it's time for Georgia's Dayquil of the gods: the pomace brandy called Chacha. Host of The Trip Nathan Thornburgh explains its appeal.
Seize the chacha by Ansel Mullins
Nikalas Marani on IG
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The Trip from Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh is back, with a tight new format, plus lots of distilled alcohol and Soviet helicopters in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains.
The Light of the Caucasus: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
Georgia: Q&A with Photographer Natela Grigalashvili
Abkhazia: Paradise Lost
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Roads & Kingdoms online
R&K Instagram
Return to Catalunya video series with Bourdain and Goulding
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Holding a diverse community together in a time of gathering threats is no easy act. Barcelona's Chief Rabbi thinks he's up to the task.
Prior Chief Rabbi of Barcelona “Europe is Lost”
The Hidden Stories of Barcelona’s Jews
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21st generation winemaker Pepe Raventós talks about his family's 500 or so years of Catalan winemaking.
Raventós i Blanc’s Sparkling Wines
Rudolf Steiner lecture trashing wine
Penedés tourism site
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Drinking Scotch and talking to a man who is really, really excited about Big Tech.
Zoltan Istvan homepage
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Drinking coffee with Eva Castillo, New Hampshire immigrant rights activist
Mira Coalition homepage
Rincón Zacatecano
Puerto Vallarta restaurant
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Gary Hirshberg was a key early supporter of Barack Obama in New Hampshire, and as chairman of Stonyfield Farm, is an icon of the business of organic food. The Trip met up with him just before the 2020 primary to do shots of probiotics and talk politics.
Stonyfield Farm
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Drinking baijiu with Tom Tillotson, whose family has presided over the midnight vote in Dixville Notch, NH for six decades.
Show notes:
Mitch Moxley's Baijiu piece for California Sunday magazine
Tom Tillotson’s China Ski Tours website
Balsams homepage
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Lebanese wine expert and podcast host Farrah Berrou takes The Trip Into the Beqaa Valley
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L'Orient-Le Jour columnist Gilles Khoury has a keen eye for the lives and aspirations of Beirut's citizens. He took The Trip to The Egg, the heart of Beirut's popular uprising and anti-corruption campaign.
Show notes:
Tripoli Ka’akeh bread--a favorite dish of the revolution
L’Orient Le Jour
The Assassination of Malcom Kerr
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Drinking Aged Negronis with Jade George: Publisher, Gourmand, Revolutionary
Show notes:
The Carton store in Hamra
Bar Ferdinand, Beirut
Kalei Coffee House
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Drinking with Chyno, the MC who brought battle rap to Beirut. Get Mamluk, his latest album, here.
Show notes:
Mamluk, Chyno’s new album from Warner Music Middle East
Chyno Instagram account
The Arena Battle Rap League IG account
Roads & Kingdoms story on the Arena
Battle Rap highlights:
Supernatural versus Juice
Blaze Battle 2000: Eyedeaz v Shells
Scribble Jam: Eminem 1997
Lebanese-American MC Dizaster versus Canibus
More revolution music: Age of the Pimp, Egyptian revolution anthem from Ramy Essam
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Anissa Helou is the author of nine books, and a leading voice of culinary sophistication for the Middle East and beyond. Host Nathan Thornburgh and Anissa shared strong, cloudy Arak in Beirut and talked about Syria, Lebanon, food and feminism.
Show notes:
Anissa’s blog
Anissa’s Instagram account
Feast: Food of the Islamic World
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A conversation, over some very dank weed, with Tijuana- and San Diego-based muralist Panca.
Show notes:
Klover dispensary homepage
Panca homepage
@aypanca on Instagram
Panca's upcoming installation at the New Childrens Museum
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A conversation in Tijuana with Gera Gámez, deportee and coworker at the legal advocacy group Al Otro Lado, before Gera's untimely death. The work he was doing continues, however, and please donate to Al Otro Lado if you can:
Show notes:
Al Otro Lado homepage
How to volunteer for Al Otro Lado
How to donate to Al Otro Lado
Police reporter Margarito 4-4’s Facebook page
Tijuana Esta Alerta, Jesús Aguilar's News Site on FB
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Journalist Jorge Nieto invites The Trip to his home at the Otay Mesa to talk about being a fixer and journalist in one of the world's most dangerous countries.
Show notes:
Gustavo Solis on Tijuana fixers
Piper French’s interview with Jorge Nieto on Roads & Kingdoms
R&K's Unbylined series featuring Q&As with fixers around the world
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Drinking mezcal old fashioneds with Ruffo Ibarra, a chef at the vanguard of Tijuana's remarkable reinvention.
Show notes:
Oryx Capital, Ruffo’s flagship restaurant
Cengrow organic farm
Gustavo Arellano on the legend of the Donkey Show
San Diego Union-Tribune on refugees and chefs aid
Ruffo Ibarra IG account
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Drinking cactus-laced "green juice" with iconic cross-border designer Edoardo Chavarín.
Our lovely sponsor this episode:
Palate Club
Show notes:
Edoardo Chavarín site
Edoardo Chavarín Instagram
Article about Chavarín’s coffee shop
Rodrigo Roji, tattoo artist and collaborator
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