Ranked #1
Episode 38: Africa, Fashion, Philadelphia
Episode 38: Africa, Fashion, Philadelphia
For the next two weeks, this show will be in Philadelphia, to give a taste of this fine American city.Over the past few ... Read more
13 May 2019
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46mins
Ranked #2
Episode 27: Japanese Love Hotels with Toko Sekiguchi
Episode 27: Japanese Love Hotels with Toko Sekiguchi
This podcast episode should have porn, right?” It’s an odd but necessary question to put to my old friend and former TIM... Read more
18 Feb 2019
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46mins
Ranked #3
Episode 37: Growing Up in the Camps
Episode 37: Growing Up in the Camps
If you want to know the best thing about Gardena, in south central Los Angeles, I’ll tell you. I think it’s Diana’s, a M... Read more
6 May 2019
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1hr 22mins
Ranked #4
Episode 18: Japanese Energy Drinks with W. Kamau Bell
Episode 18: Japanese Energy Drinks with W. Kamau Bell
This year's Emmy Awards were a big night for the people who worked with Anthony Bourdain, with Emmys going to Roads &... Read more
17 Dec 2018
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #5
Episode 31: Francis Lam is on a Bleisure Trip to Thailand
Episode 31: Francis Lam is on a Bleisure Trip to Thailand
The morning after a wedding—any big party—is usually a little groggy. It’s not necessarily unpleasant, especially if it’... Read more
18 Mar 2019
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43mins
Ranked #6
Episode 28: Tokyo Fixing with Shinji Nohara
Episode 28: Tokyo Fixing with Shinji Nohara
Shinji Nohara has been making good things happen for visitors to Tokyo for almost two decades—ever since a lanky camera-... Read more
25 Feb 2019
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41mins
Ranked #7
Episode 64: Surviving the 60s Scoop
Episode 64: Surviving the 60s Scoop
In the center of Cabot Square in downtown Montreal, there is a high column topped with a statue of the spice trader John... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #8
Episode 19: Punking the Paiche with Michael Snyder
Episode 19: Punking the Paiche with Michael Snyder
Journalist Michael Snyder writes about food, conflict, the environment, and fishing. That slurry of interests brought hi... Read more
24 Dec 2018
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36mins
Ranked #9
Episode 25: What Jason Rezaian Learned as a Prisoner in Iran
Episode 25: What Jason Rezaian Learned as a Prisoner in Iran
Iranian-American Jason Rezaian, native of Marin County, was just trying to report on the daily lives and hopes of the pe... Read more
4 Feb 2019
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41mins
Ranked #10
Episode 17: Tacos in Viking Country with Rosio Sanchez
Episode 17: Tacos in Viking Country with Rosio Sanchez
One of the great shortcomings of northern Europe—an otherwise pleasant place with soft sunsets and universal healthcare—... Read more
10 Dec 2018
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34mins
Ranked #11
Episode 16: San Francisco Happy Hour with Dan the Automator
Episode 16: San Francisco Happy Hour with Dan the Automator
Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is one of the great music producers of our time. Someone who, like Brian Eno or Phil Specto... Read more
3 Dec 2018
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34mins
Ranked #12
Episode 26: Yasmin Khan Cooks Her Way through Palestine
Episode 26: Yasmin Khan Cooks Her Way through Palestine
Chef, author and former human rights campaigner Yasmin Khan seems to have a mission statement very like our own at Roads... Read more
11 Feb 2019
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57mins
Ranked #13
Episode 55: Wanuri Kahiu
Episode 55: Wanuri Kahiu
Ah, chatting about the weather. A bit of timeworn small-talk, favored by fumbly podcast hosts everywhere. But that pleas... Read more
9 Sep 2019
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #14
Episode 20: Matt Orlando's Restaurant of the Future
Episode 20: Matt Orlando's Restaurant of the Future
Matt Orlando has worked at some of the great restaurants on this planet. Per Se in New York; The Fat Duck in the UK; Nom... Read more
31 Dec 2018
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29mins
Ranked #15
Episode 22: Jennifer Ching is Dismantling the System
Episode 22: Jennifer Ching is Dismantling the System
One of host Nathan Thornburgh’s New Year’s resolutions is to stop just stepping past all the human misery in New York Ci... Read more
14 Jan 2019
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33mins
Ranked #16
Episode 36: California+Kris = Night+Market
Episode 36: California+Kris = Night+Market
The last time I had seen Kris Yenbamroong, he and his partner Sarah St Lifer were giving me a ride into downtown Chiang ... Read more
29 Apr 2019
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #17
Episode 30: Naomi Duguid on the Charms of Chiang Mai
Episode 30: Naomi Duguid on the Charms of Chiang Mai
The Trip host Nathan Thornburgh would not be the first person to admit to falling deeply, darkly in love with the market... Read more
11 Mar 2019
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27mins
Ranked #18
Episode 35: Carolina Miranda in her East LA Eden
Episode 35: Carolina Miranda in her East LA Eden
Los Angeles is a place that is too big, too deep, spread too thin under the marine layer and above the concrete culvert... Read more
23 Apr 2019
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52mins
Ranked #19
Episode 34: Dr. Howard Conyers is Reclaiming BBQ for Black Pitmasters
Episode 34: Dr. Howard Conyers is Reclaiming BBQ for Black Pitmasters
We are in mid-city New Orleans with Dr. Howard Conyers, host of the PBS show Nourish, a rocket scientist by day and whol... Read more
8 Apr 2019
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46mins
Ranked #20
Episode 33: Pepper Bowen is Laying Down the Food Law in New Orleans
Episode 33: Pepper Bowen is Laying Down the Food Law in New Orleans
New Orleans is so old, so fine, so big in the culture, and so vast in its disappointments and its triumphs, that it feel... Read more
1 Apr 2019
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45mins