Matt Goulding

Matt Goulding is an American food journalist, book author, and producer based in Barcelona, Spain. He was food editor at Men's Health magazine, where he wrote the column Eat This, Not That, which became a book series . In 2012, he co-founded Roads & Kingdoms with longtime foreign correspondent Nathan Thornburgh. They were joined in 2015 by television host and author Anthony Bourdain, who remained a partner and editor-at-large at Roads & Kingdoms until Bourdain's death in 2018. Early life Born to a Catholic family, Goulding grew up in Northern California and North Carolina. His mother was a travel agent and his father was an insurance salesman, and he is the youngest of four brothers. After graduating high school, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he wrote for the Daily Bruin and Student Traveler. He was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when he was 15 years old. Regarding his illness, he has said, “The two ironies of my food life are one, that I come from a family that didn't really value food, and the other is that I ended up being deeply in love with this world of food but nevertheless have a digestive illness that presents all these interesting challenges and new adventures out there for me.”