Musa Okwonga's upcoming novella In the End, It Was All About Love is a gorgeous meditation on being a foreigner, and a Black man, in today's Berlin. It's why I wanted to start The Trip's five episodes in Berlin with him: for a relatively recent arrival, he communicates the city on a deep and lyrical level. So we sat together (pre-COVID) in my friend's house in Berlin, drank several Moscow Mules, and talked about schnitzel, football, and what Musa calls the psychogeography—emotion imbued even into the cobblestone—of Germany's capital.
Show notes:
Stadio: A Ringer football podcast hosted by Musa Okwonga and Ryan Hunn
Musa on Instagram
Rough Trade Books (you can pre-order Musa's novella here in November)
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Episode 98, Berlin: Musa Okwonga

Join Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh for this evolving travel podcast, currently on hiatus in 2023. Archives include long boozy global interviews and Anthony Bourdain-led deep dives. Always, though, beats have been by Dan the Automator, artwork by Daisy Dee, show art by Edel Rodriguez. All advertising proceeds go to NYC's Let Us Breathe Fund for which this show has raised thousands, even in hiatus. So thank you for listening.

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Here, to ring in this new year, is an ode to what should be the next great culinary star from the country of Georgia, the perfect vessel of unadorned cholesterol, the cosmic collision of flour, butter, egg and cheese: Khachapuri.
Links:
R&K weeklong culinary journeys: The League of Travelers
Georgian market tours: Meet Me Here Tbilisi
Mexico City Market Tours: Eat Like a Local
Market Tours everywhere else: Culinary Backstreets
Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light
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Episode 3: Khachapuri Love

Now that it's cold and flu (and COVID) season, it's time for Georgia's Dayquil of the gods: the pomace brandy called Chacha. Host of The Trip Nathan Thornburgh explains its appeal.
Seize the chacha by Ansel Mullins
Nikalas Marani on IG


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Episode 2: Chacha Divine

The Trip from Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh is back, with a tight new format, plus lots of distilled alcohol and Soviet helicopters in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains.

The Light of the Caucasus: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
Georgia: Q&A with Photographer Natela Grigalashvili
Abkhazia: Paradise Lost
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Episode 1: A New Season

Roads & Kingdoms online
R&K Instagram
Return to Catalunya video series with Bourdain and Goulding
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Episode 84, Barcelona: Matt Goulding

Holding a diverse community together in a time of gathering threats is no easy act. Barcelona's Chief Rabbi thinks he's up to the task.
Prior Chief Rabbi of Barcelona “Europe is Lost”
The Hidden Stories of Barcelona’s Jews
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Episode 98, Berlin: Musa Okwonga

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