In the latest installment of OPEN, we follow Anna Peng over the course of her day working in the Dynasty Centre Mall and meet the family behind Toronto's legendary food court stall: Great Fountain. The post A Day at the Food Court appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
As chef of the iconic Bombay Canteen, Thomas Zacharias helped ignite fresh interest in local ingredients and lost food traditions. Now, through his fast-growing Local Food Club, he’s building something far more ambitious. The post How to Build a Grassroots Food Movement in India … | Continue reading
What happens when an Italian coffee dynasty, a filmmaker, an eccentric, and one of the world's great chefs dream up a restaurant? Turin's Condividere is the subject of a new book co-authored by R&K's Eugenio Signoroni. The post Ferran Adrià’s Turin Playground appeared first on Ro … | Continue reading
What happens when an Italian coffee dynasty, a filmmaker, an eccentric, and one of the world's great chefs dream up a restaurant? Turin's Condividere is the subject of a new book co-authored by R&K's Eugenio Signoroni. The post Ferran Adrià’s Turin Experiment appeared first on Ro … | Continue reading
A pilot project explores the challenges of sustainable dining in China. Pride on Our Plates is a finalist for the 2025 Food Planet Prize. The post China’s Quest to
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A small reactor in Uppsala may hold the key to cutting the fertilizer industry’s massive carbon footprint—by harnessing the power of lightning. NitroCapt is a finalist for the 2025 Food Planet Prize. The post The Swedish Physicist Taking on Big Fertilizer appeared first on Roads … | Continue reading
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A once-dismissed discovery in Yellowstone’s geothermal soils is now helping farmers worldwide fight drought, boost yields, and reduce dependence on chemical fertilizers. The post The Fungi That Could Transform Agriculture appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
A once-dismissed discovery in Yellowstone’s geothermal soils is now helping farmers worldwide fight drought, boost yields, and reduce dependence on chemical fertilizers. The post The Fungi That Could Transform Agriculture appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
By integrating traditional Balinese farming wisdom with modern agroecological practices, Astungkara Way works to promote food security, restore degraded farmland, and deepen connections between farmers and the land. The post A Balinese Initiative Reimagines Rice Farming appeared … | Continue reading
Roads & Kingdoms is proud to co-release this short film about the opening of the great Franco-Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan's first restaurant in North America—and the first prominent restaurant in Toronto to call itself Palestinian. The post A Palestinian Chef’s Quiet Resistance … | Continue reading
An innovative biotech startup is using nature’s own signals to fight crop-killing insects—without toxic chemicals. The post Could Plant Communication Help Save Argentina’s Crops? appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
By helping farmers measure soil moisture with precision, a simple sensor is reducing waste, improving yields, and making agriculture more sustainable. The post Could a Handheld Device Reshape Farming in Africa? appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
A conversation with the Peruvian photographer Musuk Nolte, whose dreamlike new book is the latest in a rich and truly original body of work that explodes the boundaries between documentary and art photography. The post The Photographic Dreamscapes of Musuk Nolte appeared first on … | Continue reading
Cláudio Silva reflects on moving from Angola to the United States as a child, founding Angola's largest food and tourism platform, and what the country’s current flourishing means not just for Angolans but for the world. The post I Was Born in Luanda appeared first on Roads & Kin … | Continue reading
What did the extended Roads & Kingdoms family learn in the hills of Emilia-Romagna? Let's start with these eight simple rules for travel. The post Lessons from a Team Retreat appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Father-daughter journalist team Paul and Nestan Rimple report from the streets of Tbilisi, where nearly every night since protests broke out in October, Chef Tekuna Gachechiladze has been ladling out soup in paper bowls to protesters fighting for their country's future. The post … | Continue reading
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The beer is cheap and the larb is fresh, but Chiang Rai is more than all that. These 10 bits of local wisdom will help get you started. The post 10 Things to Know Before You Go to Chiang Rai appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
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In Tanzania, NovFeed is transforming the country’s compost into a source of cheap and nutritious feed for farmed fish. NovFeed is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post NovFeed: Turning Fruit into Fish appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
In Bangladesh, Pumpkin Plus transforms rural lives through the innovative technology of growing crops on sandbars. They are a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post Pumpkin Plus: Making the Sandbars Bloom appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Vermont’s Rich Earth Institute is looking to an unusual alternative to industrial fertilizer: human urine. They are a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post Rich Earth Institute: In Search of Liquid Gold appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Could an all-natural steam seed treatment replace mainstream agricultural chemical treatments? ThermoSeed, a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize, thinks so. The post ThermoSeed – A Swedish Seed Solution appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Transfarmation is an organization helping former factory farmers move from debt-laden, environmentally damaging practices toward a sustainable future. Transfarmation is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post Transfarmation: From factory farm to sustainable enterprise … | Continue reading
In a small dry corner of England, Aquagrain is creating a super-absorbent biodegradable hydrogel that could help crops grow in degraded lands. Aquagrain is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post Aquagrain: New Life for Poor Soil appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Food accounts for 13% of cities’ carbon emissions every year. But a small league of C40 Good Food Cities, from New York to Quezon City, is hoping to change that. C40 is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize. The post C40: Mayors Making Good Food Cities appeared first on Roads … | Continue reading
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The geopolitical struggle between China and the Philippines has strangled Filipino fishermen’s access to some of their richest fishing grounds The post Netted by Politics: a Fisherman’s Dilemma in the South China Sea appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Mestiza de Indias is an innovative, Maya-inspired regenerative farm in the middle of a region threatened by mass tourism and overdevelopment. Its founder has a lot to say about why food matters. The post A Model Farm in the Yucatán: Q&A with Gonzalo Samaranch appeared first on Ro … | Continue reading
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An interivew with iconic chef Jeremiah Tower about his new substack, and why gringos should always special-order their lamb consomé with extra fat. | Continue reading
Along Spain's Asturian coast, in the small fishing town of Puerto de Vega, on Plaza Cupido—Cupid Square—a self-taught cook writes culinary love letters to the Cantabrian Sea. The post The Taste of Being Thrown Around by the Sea: a Q&A with chef Marí Fernandez appeared first on Ro … | Continue reading
In Southeast Asia, the Protein Challenge is aiming for nothing less than a total transformation of regional food systems. The solution? Empowering and uniting the protein system’s various and diverse actors to create change from within. The post Tackling Southeast Asia’s Protein … | Continue reading
Monarch Tractor has recently launched its first line of electric tractors with its groundbreaking MK-V model – the world’s first full-electric, driver-optional, data-collecting smart tractor. Its CEO hopes the company is going to revolutionize the future of farming. The post Rein … | Continue reading
Australian start-up Loam is using fungi to help crops capture carbon in the soil—and keep it there. It could be a game-changer for farmers and the fight against climate change. The post Can Fungi Save our Soil? appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Australian start-up Loam is using fungi to help crops capture carbon in the soil—and keep it there. It could be a game-changer for farmers and the fight against climate change. The post Can a Mushroom Save our Soil? appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Scientists agree that global agriculture is losing crucial diversity in its plants, animals and microorganisms. But you can’t fix a problem that you can’t measure properly. That’s where the Agrobiodiversity Index comes in. The post Making the Invisible Visible appeared first on R … | Continue reading
A team of chefs and scientists in southern Spain are trying to cultivate an edible sea grain for the first time. Can Aponiente’s “sea pantry” fight global food insecurity and be used for conservation purposes? The post A Sea Grain to Feed the World appeared first on Roads & Kingd … | Continue reading
Food providers—large-scale companies that mass-produce meals for institutions like hospitals and schools—serve billions of meals annually in the United States. Despite their size, there hasn’t been nearly enough focus on how to cut their greenhouse emissions. Enter Coolfood, a on … | Continue reading
The world’s thirstiest crop is also responsible for feeding half our planet. The Sustainable Rice Platform thinks it can make a better life for farmers and consumers alike. The post Setting the Standard for Better Rice appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
The Toothpick Company turns fungi into bioherbicide to fight Striga, a devastating “master weed” that has devastated an estimated 40 million farms in Africa. The post New Weapons in Kenyan Farmers’ War on Weeds appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
In rural British Columbia, Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society is harnessing the power of poop. The post Making Waste less Wasteful appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading
Mangrove ecosystems provide community livelihoods, function as biodiversity hotspots, and help mitigate the effects of climate change, but efforts to protect them have been patchy and localized. A few organizations have banded together to change that. The post Building a Global M … | Continue reading
The team behind the Consupedia app are on a mission to create a more transparent and sustainable food industry, armed with a database of 250,000 products. With only a barcode scan, it tells consumers how sustainable and ethical their food choices are. The post The Good Food Encyc … | Continue reading
So much of American life can be improved by reducing food waste. ReFED can help. The post Food Waste Warriors appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading