Taras Grescoe

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

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