" Longtime resident Bill Buford, author of the celebrated "Heat, " says of Beaujolais: "It's tart and bright and acidic, and perfect with birds and boudin noir and kidneys and ris de veau, and all the rich, piggy, fatty, creamy, gamey food that has made the Lyonnais so weirdly robust and happy.
Simbol Materials, a California-based startup, is piggy-backing on geothermal development in the geothermal-rich Salton Sea field, with plans to extract lithium from geothermal brine for use in innovative battery applications like electric cars.