About this episode
All those people talking about a wine's "terroir", meaning the place the grapes come from. Can we really taste it? We get the scientific last word from Harold McGee author of the seminal On Food and Cooking . Jane and Michael Stern are at Woodyard Bar-B-Que in Kansas City, KS, and novelist Nicole Mones tell us about the time in Chinese culinary history which she used as a framework for her latest novel, The Last Chinese Chef . Broadcast dates for this episode: June 2, 2007 (originally aired) May 24, 2008 (rebroadcast) June 27, 2009 (rebroadcast)