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Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer who won the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2008 for his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood.[1] He was also nominated twice previously, for Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec in 2000 and The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists in 2003. His one but recent book, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile is about public transportation around the world.[2][3]

Grescoe was born in Toronto, Ontario. He lives in Outremont, Montreal, Quebec.[1]

Work

Sacré Blues won the 2001 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction[4] and two awards from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.

He has contributed to Canadian Geographic,[5] The New York Times, Salon, The Independent, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Times, and Condé Nast Traveller.

His book, Bottomfeeder: how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood has also been published as Dead Seas: how the fish on our plates is killing our planets and Bottomfeeder: how the fish on our plates is killing our planets (Pan/Macmillan 2012).

Books

• Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (2000)
• The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (2003)
• The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (2005)
• Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008)
• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
• Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016)

References

External links

• Taras Grescoe

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