A Season for That - Steve Hoffman Paperback Good body on the palate

Good body on the palate

The monks blend the botanicals at the monastery

what the Italians call viticoltura eroica

Matteo is the current custodian of his family plots high in the Dolomites

and a careful salvage harvest finished in wood yielded a robust

A Season for That - Steve Hoffman Paperback Good body on the palateSteve Hoffman is a tax preparer and food writer from Shoreview, Minnesota, who moved his family to Autignac, a small, scratchy hot wine village in the Languedoc, for half a year, and A Season for That is the memoir he brought home. The Paris fantasy dies early, and what replaces it is better: cooking guidance from the village grocer, a stint as grape picker and winemaker's apprentice for a neighbor, and a slow education in how a place that lives by