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Matt Goulding
James Beard Award winner
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i. Biography
Matt Goulding is the name attached to Roads & Kingdoms, and over time that name has come to stand for a certain kind of travel writing: attentive, intimate, and shaped by appetite as much as observation. His work reached another note with a book published alongside Anthony Bourdain, a collaboration that carries its own emotional weather. The quoted project title, Dear Tony, signals the personal register of the book plainly enough. It points toward Italy, toward a friend and partner, and toward a project that arrived with urgency rather than distance, as if the work itself were moving in step with memory.
The Essentials He has said, “The past few days there has been a lot written about Tony, a man who was a hero to me and so many others. A thousand-year-flood of tributes. This book is mine.” The line is spare, but it lands with the force of someone drawing a boundary between public mourning and private expression. In another statement, he added, “We have a book out tomorrow that we published with our friend and partner Anthony Bourdain. It's about a place he cared for deeply—Italy—and like our last two books, the whole process began with two simple words: Dear Tony.” Read together, the comments sketch the tone of the project: affectionate, direct, and grounded in a shared language that needed no ornament beyond those two words.
Signature
Matt’s signature dishes include RICE NOODLE FISH, GRAPE OLIVE PIG, and PASTA PANE VINO. Listed together, they suggest the kind of culinary imagination that favors contrast and texture, with each name carrying its own rhythm and promise. Even in this brief form, the trio feels like a menu written with travel in mind—restless, worldly, and attentive to the way food can hold a place in a single line.
In Their Words “We have a book out tomorrow that we published with our friend and partner Anthony Bourdain. It's about a place he cared for deeply—Italy—and like our last two books, the whole process began with two simple words: Dear Tony.” “The past few days there has been a lot written about Tony, a man who was a hero to me and so many others. A thousand-year-flood of tributes. This book is mine.”
Profile updated July 2026
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Who is Matt Goulding?
He is the person associated with Roads & Kingdoms and the book Dear Tony.
What is Matt Goulding known for?
He is known for work tied to Roads & Kingdoms and for a book published with Anthony Bourdain about Italy.
Where does Matt Goulding work?
Roads & Kingdoms is the only named professional home tied to him here.
