The Battle for the Boqueria

The Boqueria has survived civil war and political divisions, tyranny and terrorism, but now it faces the most relentless challenge: mass tourism. | Continue reading


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Your Guide to La Boqueria

How to work Barcelona’s greatest market like a local. | Continue reading


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Caravan to the Unknown

Photographers documenting the movement of Central American migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border share images of the people leaving everything they’ve known behind for the possibility of asylum in the United States. | Continue reading


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Japanese Energy Drinks with W. Kamau Bell

W. Kamau Bell, the host of CNN's United Shades of America, talks about making television and handling fame, all while getting super amped on speed-laced Japanese beverages | Continue reading


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R&K Insider: Cooking with fire in Balochistan, resisting with farm tools in Guatemala

This week on Roads & Kingdoms, the woman whose restaurant divided a community in Quetta, Pakistan, farmers fight Big Palm Oil in Guatemala, and London's pettiest crimes. | Continue reading


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Fighting for land in Guatemala

The Q'eqchi have struggled for land rights since the late 19th century, when their ancestral lands started being privatized. This community fought back. | Continue reading


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Cooking with Fire

For Hamida Ali Hazara, running a woman-run restaurant in Quetta to help her Shia-Hazari community was a dangerous business. | Continue reading


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Tacos in Viking Country with Rosio Sanchez

Rosio Sanchez's Mexican flavors have made her an international culinary star, from her base in... Denmark. | Continue reading


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The Taiwan firewater that warms frosty relations

While some Chinese baijiu scorches from sinus to stomach, "58" Kaoliang is more subtle. | Continue reading


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R&K Insider: North Vietnam’s war veterans and what it’s like to be a fixer in Yemen

Plus, a San Francisco Happy Hour with legendary hip-hop producer Dan the Automator | Continue reading


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Unbylined: A Q&A with a Yemeni Fixer

Adel Al-Hasani, a Yemeni journalist, has been helping to report on the war in Yemen since it started in 2015. | Continue reading


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The Smell of Burnt Nylon

Testimonies of North Vietnamese veterans and their families on the 50th anniversary of a critical year in the Vietnam War. | Continue reading


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San Francisco Happy Hour with Dan the Automator

Dan "the Automator" Nakamura on his unlikely path to hip-hop immortality and why he's owning his Asian-American identity now more than ever. | Continue reading


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R&K Insider: Dispatched from Ukraine and a mission to Mars

This week on R&K, Russian aggression, fighting for veterans' rights in Ukraine, and pretzels in Philadelphia. | Continue reading


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The Ministry of Miraculous Recoveries: A Ukrainian Quadruple-Amputee’s Fight for Veterans’ Rights

Vadym Svyrydenko lost everything on a frigid battlefield in Ukraine. Now the war’s only quadruple amputee is tackling the veteran crisis. | Continue reading


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Hammered Vegans with Shannon Martinez

One of Australia's great chefs of vegan cuisine is an avowed meat-eater. | Continue reading


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A history of Philadelphia in 10 dishes

Ice cream, pretzels, beer, plus Ethiopian wat (with karaoke!). Here are the 10 dishes that make Philly. | Continue reading


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Translating Life in Iran

Meet the woman translator who stared down the Islamic Republic. | Continue reading


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How Teachers Survive: A Q&A with Peter Rad

Photographer Peter Rad speaks to R&K about the American teachers working side jobs just to survive. | Continue reading


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Dreams of Pickled Heron in Galway

Latest The Trip podcast: one of Ireland's great chefs, JP McMahon, talks swan pie, pickled heron, and other delicious cruelties of yore. | Continue reading


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The finest little Japanese bakery in Phnom Penh

Chocolate Croissants in Phnom Penh The mention of pain au chocolat causes most people to recall a trip to Paris. For me, talk of exemplary chocolate croissants brings to mind a bakery in Phnom Penh. Life in Cambodia’s capital has made kuyteav (thin rice noodles in pork broth) and … | Continue reading


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R&K Insider: A different kind of trip on the Lower East Side and Larry the Cat for Brexit Minister

This week on R&K, Brexit’s finest cat content, T.M. Brown’s long, strange trip in Alphabet City, and finding food in Venezuela. | Continue reading


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Turning on and dropping out in Alphabet City

But you can still get your kicks on the Lower East Side. You just need to know where to look. | Continue reading


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“Getting food to your fridge is a full-time job in Venezuela”

Venezuelans spend hours in long lines for basic groceries. | Continue reading


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Sipping Through Austria

Writer, editor, and Vienna native Alexa van Sickle talks about her boozy road trip through Austria. | Continue reading


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A history of Odessa in 10 dishes

From forschmak to Armenian kebabs and the bounty of the Black Sea: tracing the history of Ukraine's multicultural port city through food. | Continue reading


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Marketing a Better Mezcal

This week on The Trip, Niki Nakazawa talks with host Nathan Thornburgh about leaving behind the art world for the food world and the future of mezcal. | Continue reading


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Cambodia’s most diligent and heroic architect

Dy Proeung built scale models of temples. When the Khmer Rouge took over, he had to hide his life’s work—and his identity. | Continue reading


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“When this place closes, I’m going to go live my life.”

Ipoh style coffee houses have become a sensation across Malaysia and throughout the region. | Continue reading


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R&K Insider: Scariest halloween edition

This week on R&K, a dispatch from the chaos on the Brazil-Venezuela border, a Pittsburgh rabbi on the aftermath of the synagogue shooting, and tributes to Anthony Bourdain. | Continue reading


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‘I don’t know what will happen to us in Brazil’

Roraima used to be known as a sleepy outpost. Now it’s the center of a contentious migration crisis. | Continue reading


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A Pittsburgh rabbi on the Tree of Life synagogue shooting

Pittsburgh Rabbi Mordy Rudolph speaks to us about Saturday's Tree of Life synagogue shooting, and how the community is trying to heal. | Continue reading


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Hangover cures of the world, No. 341: Fermented black carrot juice

While cycling from London to Tbilisi, Amy Jones discovers the antidote to an evening of raki. | Continue reading


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Come for the yeast and strawberries-flavored ale, stay for the raw shrimp

Imperial Stout in Bangkok | Continue reading


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Fermenting in Oaxaca

For our podcast The Trip, we day drink with exceptional people. This week Nathan Thornburgh us in Oaxaca to talk to baker and pickler Pauline Garcia. | Continue reading


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Meet the man fighting to preserve rural Utah lands

Mark Maryboy has been fighting for indigenous land rights in Utah for decades. But the looming legal showdown with the Trump Administration over #BearsEars monument could be his biggest battle yet. | Continue reading


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In Accra, a rocky ocean retreat with a briny breeze

At Osikan, drink a beer and gaze out towards America or Antarctica. | Continue reading


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We would absolutely travel 2361 miles for this duck broth

As I’ve discovered the hard way, it is nearly impossible to track down this rich soupy concoction of vermicelli and duck offal outside China. | Continue reading


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The Road of Doom Leads to A Lemony Heaven

Limoncello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. | Continue reading


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Let’s toast to drinking high on a mountain in the middle of nowhere

A brief introduction to Gentiana liquor in Abruzzo, Italy. | Continue reading


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Chef Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’ transforms from book to TV show

This week on The Trip, host Nathan Thornburgh talks to Samin Nosrat about how her Netflix show came to be and her quest to open doors in the food world for people of color. | Continue reading


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Reviving classic Russian cuisine

Roads & Kingdoms talks to Russian chef Vladimir Mukhin | Continue reading


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The calming effect of a good travel companion and strong liquor in your coffee

Spiti Coffee in India's Himachal Pradesh. (Add barley booze to taste.) | Continue reading


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A Robot Can Cook You Roti, but It Won’t Taste Like Home

Coffee can be ground by machines. Soups can be blended in a processor. But rotis should always be made by hand. | Continue reading


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“We are going to die collecting firewood”

After escaping slaughter in Myanmar, many refugees in Bangladesh have no source of fuel but the wood they can collect from a rapidly disappearing forest. | Continue reading


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The border is where the wine stops flowing

The border is where the wine stops flowing. | Continue reading


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As with so many things, the secret is in the pig fat

A life-changing burek in Serbia. | Continue reading


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A woman chases her mother’s taste memory of Korean cornbread

Nathan Thornburgh talks to Nicole Choi about connecting with her mother through cornbread. | Continue reading


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