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Dead Seas: How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing Our Planet by Taras Grescoe
Category: Science & Natural History
There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal. The Japanese are notorious for their trade in bluefin tuna, while newlyweds in Bangkok, Shanghai and Singapore devour a gelatinous soup made from poached abalone and fins hacked from living sharks. But surely there's no need for yo ...Show more
Possess the Air - Fascism, Freedom, and the Fate of Mussolini's Rome by Taras Grescoe
Category: History | Series: Untold Lives Ser.
A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with the illusion that there is nothing to be done. That is not true. Every perso ...Show more
Shanghai Grand - Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World by Taras Grescoe
Category: Biography
Taras Grescoe spins the true story of a British aristocrat, an American flapper, and a Chinese poet who found themselves trapped in an unlikely love triangle amid the decadence of Jazz Age Shanghai. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centur ...Show more
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War by Taras Grescoe
Category: History
Taras Grescoe spins the true story of a British aristocrat, an American flapper, and a Chinese poet who found themselves trapped in an unlikely love triangle amid the decadence of Jazz Age Shanghai. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centur ...Show more
The Devil's Picnic by Taras Grescoe
Category: Travel Literature
Never in history have we seemed to have such global freedom, such an opportunity to indulge our wildest tastes. We think we live in a time of unprecedented choice. In this book, the author goes in search of the things that the rulers of the world will punish you for trying? This is a journey for free-th ...Show more
The Devil's Picnic: A Tour of Everything the Governments of the World Don't Want You to Try by Taras Grescoe
Category: Cooking
Never in history have we seemed to have such global freedom, such an opportunity to indulge our wildest tastes. We think we live in a time of unprecedented choice. But as Taras Grescoe discovers, this is just an illusion. In this witty expose our intrepid author goes in search of the things that the rul ...Show more
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past by Taras Grescoe
Category: Food and Drink | Series: A\Fascinating Book That Leaves You Hungry for More. --Kirkus STARRED Review Ser.
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, "a surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines" (Kirkus ★)--from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauce--and why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future. Many of us are worried (or at least we should ...Show more
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