Nathan Thornburgh

A career as a foreign correspondent, eater and traveler has led to this central question: how can you tell the story of a place through food?

Emmy and James Beard Award winning journalist Nathan Thornburgh and his team at Roads & Kingdoms are designing small-group culinary trips around the world, from Angola to Australia, that can serve both as a really good time for travelers and a really good yarn for readers.

But as always, the most interesting questions are the complicated ones: Whose story gets to be told? Is sustainable travel just a delusion? can trips like these help save food traditions or just bear witness to their demise?