Roads & Kingdoms Issue 2

Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 2: The Sixth Taste features 144 pages of deep-cut storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around the world. From the psychedelic Mexi-futurist corn imagery by Raúl Urias to Yasmin Khan’s essay about tasting the food of her native Iran as she watches its destruction from afar, this issue explores the notion of context. How it colors every experience, every taste, every sensation. How it changes everything.

The issue includes reporting from Sichuan, Sicily, Luanda, and Nayarit. You’ll find Clay Williams’ photographic documentation of the fight to keep the Jamaican coastline in local hands, and Eugenio Signoroni’s feature on how Italian wine culture was changed forever by a deadly crime spree in the 1980s, accompanied by never-before-published 1966 photographs that may be the most intimate record of daily life in a Piedmontese provincial osteria from that era.

You’ll also find our second edition of “The R&K 50,” our definitive, unranked global list of the restaurants that our favorite chefs, writers, and eaters think of as second homes, with contributions from Padma Lakshmi, Jason Rezaian, Julieta Venegas, and many more.