Bite The Book

Archeology of Taste

Taras Grescoe

4:30pm

Sunday, October 1, 2023

60 mins

With today’s challenges of food production and globalisation, many are looking to a surprising place to safeguard the future: the past. In the tradition of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain, Taras Grescoe offers an exciting and globe-trotting account of ancient cuisines and why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future. With references to Ancient Roman fish sauce to Aztec caviar to the long-thought-extinct silphium, The Lost Supper is a deep dive into the latest frontier of global gastronomy. Grescoe sets out a provocative case: in order to save these foods, he argues, we’ve got to eat them.

Moderated by Mark Schatzker.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Food

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Moderated by Mark Schatzker.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Food

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Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe is the author of seven nonfiction books and a widely read commentator on the interplay of food, travel, and the environment. His journalism has been published in many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Guardian and National Geographic. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.