Soup at the Barricades with the Queen of Georgian Cuisine

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 Life and Wanderings of Chef Andy Ricker

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The Story of Mosul Q&A with Cengiz Yar

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Matt Goulding on “Omnivore,” His Inventive New Show with René Rezepi

The post Matt Goulding on “Omnivore,” His Inventive New Show with René Rezepi appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 5 months ago

10 Things to Know Before You Go to Chiang Rai

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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How the Vietnamese Eat Today Q&A with Daniel Nguyen

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NovFeed: Turning Fruit into Fish

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 7 months ago

Pumpkin Plus: Making the Sandbars Bloom

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


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Rich Earth Institute: In Search of Liquid Gold

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


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ThermoSeed – A Swedish Seed Solution

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


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Transfarmation: From factory farm to sustainable enterprise

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


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Aquagrain: New Life for Poor Soil

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


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C40: Mayors Making Good Food Cities

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 Right Gear, the Right Moment: Q&A with Photographer Beatriz Janer

The Catalan photographer sees herself as narrator, collecting images of individual travelers and then bringing all their experiences together. | Continue reading


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Netted by Politics: a Fisherman’s Dilemma in the South China Sea

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

A Model Farm in the Yucatán: Q&A with Gonzalo Samaranch

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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Make it Loud: Q&A with Dylan Eitharong

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A Memoirist in Mérida: Q&A with Jeremiah Tower

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


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The Taste of Being Thrown Around by the Sea: a Q&A with chef Marí Fernandez

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


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Tackling Southeast Asia’s Protein Crisis

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


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Reinventing the Wheel

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

Can Fungi Save our Soil?

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

Can a Mushroom Save our Soil?

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

Making the Invisible Visible

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

A Sea Grain to Feed the World

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


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Serving Climate-Friendly Meals, One Student at a Time

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


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Setting the Standard for Better Rice

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 1 year ago

New Weapons in Kenyan Farmers’ War on Weeds

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


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Making Waste less Wasteful

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 2 years ago

Building a Global Mangrove Movement

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


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 2 years ago

The Good Food Encyclopedia

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


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Food Waste Warriors

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


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A Cold Room for a Warming World

A Nigerian start-up takes on the problem of food spoilage at all steps of the production chain, one solar-powered cold room at a time. The post A Cold Room for a Warming World appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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Planting the Future

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an organization called Yakum is seeding a better, cleaner, greener future for the indigenous Siekopai The post Planting the Future appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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The Light Fantastic

New Zealand startup BioLumic is producing radically healthier and more productive crops, simply by exposing them to novel “recipes” of UV light The post The Light Fantastic appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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A Beginning Where Others See an End

How a 141-year old waste management company is pioneering the recycling—rather than mining—of phosphorus and other resources we need to keep feeding the world. The post A Beginning Where Others See an End appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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From South Africa, a WonderBag for the Future

The WonderBag is a slow-cooker designed to reduce cooking time, fuel use, and carbon emissions. It also lightens the load for women in countries where open-fire cooking and hours of unpaid labor daily falls to them. The post From South Africa, a WonderBag for the Future appeared … | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 2 years ago

Apeel’s Mission to Save the World’s Produce

Starting with the state’s beloved avocado, the California-based Apeel Sciences has found a natural way to extend the life of produce and reduce food waste. The post Apeel’s Mission to Save the World’s Produce appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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Singer/songwriter/promoter Eme Alfonso on old and new challenges for Cuban musicians

Singer/songwriter/promoter Eme Alfonso on Cuban music education, new challenges for Cuban musicians, and growing up as the daughter of Cuban rock royalty. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Eme Alfonso on old and new challenges for Cuban musicians

Eme Alfonso on Cuban music education, new challenges for Cuban musicians, and growing up as the daughter of Cuban rock royalty. The post Eme Alfonso on old and new challenges for Cuban musicians appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Afro-Cuban artist, cook, and queer activist Nancy Cepero on questioning everything

Nancy Cepero, vegan chef, queer anti-racist activist and artist, on trying to change Cuba's food culture, self-care, and queer activism after the country's church-led backlash to same-sex marriage. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Afro-Cuban artist, cook, and queer activist Nancy Cepero on questioning everything

Nancy Cepero, vegan chef, queer anti-racist activist and artist, on trying to change Cuba's food culture, self-care, and queer activism after the backlash against same-sex marriage. The post Afro-Cuban artist, cook, and queer activist Nancy Cepero on questioning everything appear … | Continue reading


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Raiding the wine cellar with Billy Wagner

Drinking unique wines in Kreuzberg at the home of Billy Wagner, sommelier and proprietor of Berlin's Michelin-starred Nobelhart & Schmutzig. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Raiding the wine cellar with Billy Wagner

Drinking unique wines in Kreuzberg at the home of Billy Wagner, sommelier and proprietor of Berlin's Michelin-starred Nobelhart & Schmutzig. The post Raiding the wine cellar with Billy Wagner appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Mónica Baró on committing independent journalism in Cuba

Cuban independent journalist Mónica Baró and Nathan Thornburgh talk about their respective arrests in Cuba, and about why she does what she does, despite all the risks. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Mónica Baró on committing independent journalism in Cuba

Cuban independent journalist and Nathan Thornburgh talk about their respective arrests in Cuba, and about why she does what she does, despite all the risks. The post Mónica Baró on committing independent journalism in Cuba appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Ailed Duarte on the unique pressures and pleasures of tattooing in Cuba

Ailed Duarte is co-founder of La Marca studio, which has helped bring tattoo art, once illegal throughout Cuba, into the mainstream. | Continue reading


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Ailed Duarte on the unique pressures and pleasures of tattooing in Cuba

Ailed Duarte is co-founder of La Marca studio, which has helped bring tattoo art, once illegal throughout Cuba, into the mainstream. The post Ailed Duarte on the unique pressures and pleasures of tattooing in Cuba appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


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