Summary: <p>Journalist Kevin Begos discusses <em>Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine</em>. Begos embarked on a ten-year journey seeking the origins of wine. Starting in the Caucasus Mountains, where wine grapes were first domesticated eight thousand years ago, then venturing to Israel and across the Mediterranean to Greece, Italy, and France, and finally to America. On his travels he discovers a whole world of forgotten grapes as well as the archaeologists, geneticists, and chemists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. Begos offers a unique history of this ancient culinary tradition. This is a rebroadcast of a segment that originally aired June 22, 2018.</p> <p><em>This segment is guest hosted by Melissa Clark.</em></p>
