𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚂𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛 📘

The reviews are in, and the reviews are good!

My latest book: The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

I'm imagining it as a doc series. (@veltre for option)

Here's a round-up of what the critics are saying:
taras-grescoe.com/the-lost-suppe…

At least a dozen writing systems resist all human attempts at decipherment.

These include Linear A, the Harappan Script of the Indus Valley, and Rongorongo, inscribed with shark's teeth on wooden panels on Rapa Nui.

Now, thanks to artificial intelligence... 🧵

Got the Trump Trade War blues?

I show how #Montreal is charting a path to agricultural self-sufficiency w/ urban fish-farming, greenhouses on shopping malls, + rooftop grapevines for wine-making.

Bye-bye imported tomatoes!

On the @foodandwine website:

foodandwine.com/montreal-urban…

I paid a visit to Lufa Farms, which operates the world's largest rooftop greenhouse in #Montreal.

It's a huge urban farm, which supplies tomatoes, peppers, cukes—as well as locally-made cheese, beer, sausages etc— to 70,000+ subscribers. Hydroponics has pros and cons...

Calling authors, editors, publishers!

Does anybody know of an editor at a leading house who has a soft spot for trains—railroads—rail travelogues/history?

There are loads in London; I'm looking for a literary ferroequinologist in NY, Toronto, etc.—on my side of the Atlantic.