Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans that explains this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing?
Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home if they are displaced from it; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. 
Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this: “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book...
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I’m eyeing a vintage glass cookie jar I haven’t used in years, and a big glass snifter, too, that’s been sitting idle on a...
