Taras Grescoe
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Taras Grescoe

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Taras Grescoe is the award-winning author of eight non-fiction books (among them the best-selling Bottomfeeder, Shanghai Grand, Straphanger, and The Devil’s Picnic), and has been a professional, full-time freelance journalist and author in Canada for the last thirty years. His works of book-length reportage and creative non-fiction, which have been published in Toronto, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, Taipei, and London and translated into half a dozen languages, have received international critical acclaim. His magazine features have won Western and National Magazine Awards in Canada (in the categories of arts, travel, editorial courage and innovation) and national prizes in the United States (Lowell Thomas Awards). His books have won major awards internationally and in Canada (the Mavis Gallant Prize, the Quebec Writers’ Federation Non-Fiction Prize, the Edna Staebler Prize, the Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction, the IACP Prize for Literary Food Writing) and been finalists for prestigious non-fiction prizes (the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing). His features have appeared in The Walrus, Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, L’actualité, Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, The National Post and The Ottawa Citizen, and been published around the world in The New Yorker, Gourmet, The Guardian, The New York Times (travel section, magazine, op-ed pages), The Atlantic, Monocle, Food and Wine, Condé Nast Traveller, The Wall Street Journal, The Smithsonian, National Geographic, and The Times of London (among many others). He also has a large following on social media, and is a popular public speaker on the themes of urbanism and sustainable transportation, who has given over a dozen keynotes in Canada and the United States. Born in Toronto, raised in Vancouver and Calgary, he now lives in Montreal with his wife Erin, who is an English teacher at Vanier College, and their two young sons, Desmond and Victor. He has taught and mentored creative non-fiction for the Quebec Writers Federation and at the King’s College graduate journalism progress in Halifax (2015), mentored for the Writers’ Trust Rising Stars Prize (2018), and been a juror for the Marian Hebb Award (Access Copyright, Saskatoon), and the Canada Council for the Arts Non-Fiction Grants (Ottawa). He is a fellow of the Banff Center for the Arts (Literary Journalism Program, 2005) and the Michalski Foundation for Writing (Montricher, Switzerland, 2022). He has been invited to speak at literary festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Festival, Toronto’s Waterfront, and the Shanghai Literary Festival. His eighth book, The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past, was published by Greystone (Berkeley, Vancouver) and Éditions Noir sur Blanc (Lausanne, Paris), in September, 2023.
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  • Lost Supper Audiobook By Taras Grescoe cover art

    • Lost Supper

    • Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past
    • By: Taras Grescoe
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings

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    • Shanghai Grand

    • Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
    • By: Taras Grescoe
    • Narrated by: Christine Marshall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 25 ratings

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