Taras Grescoe

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | foodandwine.com | Taras Grescoe

Photo: Courtesy of Lufa Farms “Give it a try!” says Mohamed Hage, offering me the ripe cherry tomato he’s plucked from a vine. The Lebanese-born founder of Lufa Farms is guiding me through a leafy landscape: rows of reddening tomatoes labeled Balthasetto and Ferreira, varieties sought after by Montreal’s best chefs, rise skywards on a horizontal scaffolding of irrigation tubes. No need to wash it, Hage points out; like everything Lufa grows, it’s pesticide free.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Taras Grescoe

Creative new forms of urban agriculture are turning Montreal into a produce powerhouse year-round. Taras GrescoeThu, March 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM UTC4 min read“Give it a try!” says Mohamed Hage, offering me the ripe cherry tomato he’s plucked from a vine.

1 month ago | foodandwine.com | Taras Grescoe

Photo: Dawid Kalisinski Photography / Getty Images If you love seafood, Ireland is one of the best places in the world to enjoy the fishy side of the menu. Astonishingly, this has not always been the case. You’d figure that, with its thousands of miles of coastline and its prime position as one of the North Atlantic’s richest fishing grounds, this island nation would be a venerable bastion of seafood cookery.