But here in Barcelona there are a few beacons who have held the light throughout the years, and one of those is La Plata, which you know well. Mostly José Andrés is to blame and his Mercado in New York, where they’re doing porrón debauchery daily. Thornburgh: When you got Jose leading the way on Instagram with his porrón skills. And it’s mid-hipster moment in the U.S, I believe. Whether red or white wine, an easy way to pass it around amongst colleagues in the middle of the day, wet your whistle and keep going after it, that was the idea. So this is a good guy, poured into the porrón-that great glass wine receptacle with that narrow nose that you pour in the classic style of the old Spanish working in the fields. Matt Goulding: Well, that bottle we just popped is called Xarel-lo, a white wine from Catalonia. Nathan Thornburgh: Tell me what we have to drink here. Ultimately what we’re talking about is drinking wine from a great height.
Listen to the episode for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here is an edited and condensed transcript from my conversation with Matt. What we ended up drinking-a porrón of white wine-and what we ended up talking about-how to be a writer-seemed just about perfect to me. So we had, for this episode in my rental apartment in the Gothic Quarter, a lot of options. I’ve had a lot of drinks and a lot of conversations with Matt over the years-it’s the chief economic activity of Roads & Kingdoms. It’s Matt Goulding, who still calls Barcelona home, and is still writing, is writing, at least part of the time, as my partner and co-founder at Roads & Kingdoms. One of the MCs who used to frequent those nights years and years ago is back on the mic. This is a early-aughts reunion episode, starting with this concert, the one-night revival of long-dormant open-mic series from years ago in Barcelona. Inside, a hundred or so people stand toward the stage, nodding thoughtfully to a mashup hiphop and acid jazz. On the loading dock they smoke cigarettes sprinkled with hash, and drink beers from plastic cups. A warehouse toward the edge of Barcelona.
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