Taras Grescoe

Non-fiction specialist. Author of eight books—and counting. Railways, history, ethical eating, bicycles, the environment, travel, stories big and small. Words in The New York Times, The Guardian, Smithsonian, The Times of London, National Geographic, Afar, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, L'actualité, Gourmet, Food & Wine, The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, and many more. Father, husband, sometimes teacher; straphanger, bicycle-rider, bottomfeeder, densha otaku, seeker of lost suppers.

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