The Botany of Desire 2001

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Focusing on the human relationship with plants, uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.

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Books by Michael Pollan:

• Cooked (2013)
• In Defense of Food (2008)
• Food Rules (2009)
• The Botany of Desire (2001)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)