Vineyards, Rocks, and Soils: The Wine Lover's Guide to Geology (Alex Maltman) berries the traditional foods

the traditional foods

The dishes celebrate natural ingredients and encourage you to enjoy your food all the more having considered its origin

under contract with the Dutch East India Company

This cuisine features butter

The cover art is by New Orleans painter and graphic artist Olive Leonhardt

Vineyards, Rocks, and Soils: The Wine Lover's Guide to Geology (Alex Maltman) berries the traditional foodsJurassic, basalt, moraine, flint, alluvial, magma: what are these words and what do they have to do with wine? The answers are here in this book. They are geological terms that reflect a bond between wine and the land. Understanding geology, however, is tricky. Geological concepts are obscure; processes can be imperceptibly slow, invisible, and unimaginably ancient. The terminology is formidable, such that even the names of common rocks carry an air