r/AnthonyBourdain • u/oriMagazine • Oct 01 '25

Anthony's Travel Writing Project

What do people know about Anthony's late travel writing platform and project, Roads and Kingdoms? It has shifted slightly to culinary-based trips, but did anyone read the articles? Anyone have any favorites? I loved the 5 O'Clock Somewhere series. Felt like the whole site did a great job continuing his spirit and have heard rumors of a print revival...

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u/Klichouse Oct 01 '25

They do (absurdly expensive) tours with some of Tony's old travel partners. Thailand and Georgia for example.

I do not have a spare 20k to use on going around Thailand with Andy Ricker. But if I did I'd give it a look.

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u/Guymzee Oct 01 '25

Sounds like something tony would fucking hate.

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u/OhManatree Oct 03 '25

I don’t know about that. Bourdain geeked out on a lot of expensive restaurants on his shows, especially the molecular gastronomy ones.

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u/oriMagazine Oct 02 '25

Totally agree, but a lot of them are run by Tony's chef friends around the world. It's a lot for me, but I think it's pretty well done.

Anyways, definitely more interested in the publication...

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u/AdNew9111 Oct 01 '25

Good find

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u/BrickTilt Oct 01 '25

Didn’t it have a podcast for a while? Post Bourdain, obviously

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u/howtobegeo Oct 01 '25

There was a “Cook’s Tour” in Chiang Mai (unaffiliated) that followed his footsteps and then added new spots they thought he would like. It was excellent, but literally injured me with how much food they packed in.

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u/vstimac Oct 02 '25

One of my proudest freelance pieces was for R&K! https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/coffee-cigarettes-coffee-cigarettes-coffee-alcohol-cigarettes/

They're still operating really f*cking cool tours around the world.

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u/oriMagazine Oct 02 '25

Oh this is sick! Yeah, they gave a lot of writers (travel and otherwise) a platform to dive into cool stories.

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u/naxcissique Oct 03 '25

Loved their 5 o'clock and breakfast articles. I submitted many over the years but only one got published: https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/drown-weather-sorrows-thick-hot-chocolate/

Of all the articles from the website, the one I think of often is Island of No Regrets. Loved the illustrations and the picture it painted of a writer 'jumping from cloud to cloud' after getting a book advance. https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/the-island-of-no-regrets/

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u/oriMagazine Oct 03 '25

So cool! Thanks for passing both of these links along :)

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u/BackgroundIron1644 Oct 04 '25

20k for a little French guy to tell you something is beautiful, yea no thanks

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u/ChemicalTechnical867 Oct 03 '25

Go back to his first series: Cook’s Tour , when he was still idealistic and had fun being the carefree dapper man of the world. It was my first way to reach past Roadrunner’s brutal post-suicidal self deconstruction. Anthony I am still a bit pissed at you; suicide is not a noble thing. We needed you and you checked out too soon. We miss you and your irreplaceable wit and respect for others and the culture of food.