Gourmet Traveller

ON THE ROAD

Jack Kerouac has a lot to answer for. The American novelist probably didn’t intend to romanticise the long-distance road trip when he penned On the Road in 1957. And yet, romanticise it he did.

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars,” he wrote wistfully.

More than 60 years later, the call of the open road has never beckoned more loudly than in a post-Covid-19 world of border closures and flight restrictions. But

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Gourmet Traveller

Gourmet Traveller1 min read
Land & Sea
Growing up, Dennis Tierney ebbed and flowed between world travel and life on a hobby farm in northern New South Wales, learning from his mother, a French chef, every step of the way. His first professional experiences in the kitchen were at Fins in B
Gourmet Traveller5 min read
Game On
That looks like my worst nightmare.” This is one of the many shocked comments I got on my Instagram story when I posted images of my 25-plus course at Amisfield, just outside Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island. I understood. Chef Vaughan Mabee’
Gourmet Traveller3 min read
Wild Foraged Plants
Foraging wild food has become desperately fashionable in recent years. Social media is awash with tutorials on how to harvest and prepare plants and fungi from public places. It’s a truly fascinating social phenomenon, because foraging wild plants is

Related Books & Audiobooks