Taras Grescoe

4 days ago | longnow.org | Taras Grescoe

It was October 02019, and Thea Sommerschield had hit a wall. She was working on her doctoral thesis in ancient history at Oxford, which involved deciphering Greek inscriptions that were carved on stones in Western Sicily more than 2,000 years earlier. As is often the case in epigraphy — the study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions written on durable surfaces like stone and clay — many of the texts were badly damaged.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Taras Grescoe

It was a good morning to leave Halifax, Nova Scotia. We'd enjoyed a spring Saturday exploring the harbour-front promenade of Canada's main Atlantic port. Our sons, 13-year-old Desmond and nine-year-old Victor, had indulged in the scones at the farmers' market, followed by an energetic parkour session in a playground that included a yellow submarine, massive anchors and a slide shaped like a whale's tongue.

3 weeks ago | theglobeandmail.com | Taras Grescoe

2 months ago | highspeed.blog | Taras Grescoe

A Cross-Country Milk Run Aboard the United States’s Trolleys and Cable Cars (Here's a blast from the past: back when magazines were still paying writers to travel, I got an assignment to ride trolleys across the U.S., from Kennebunkport to San Diego. I don't write 'em like this any more.)        //    A thin Pacific rain is washing over the hills of San Francisco, and aboard the Powell-Hyde cable car, the gripman is having a rough night of it.

2 months ago | foodandwine.com | Taras Grescoe

Photo: Courtesy of Little Saltee In Ireland, you’ll definitely want to go to the chipper — a fish ‘n’ chips shop — with “chips” being fries, which are typically made with high-starch Maris Piper potatoes here. Some argue that modern Irish seafood cooking began when a young Italian named Giuseppe Cervi opened shop in Dublin’s Great Brunswick Street in 1900.