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Michael Pollan - In Defence Of Food
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ISBN: 978-0-141-03472-0
Publisher: Penguin Books - 2009
Synopsis: Michael Pollan's last book 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now 'In Defense of Food' shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
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Michael Pollan - The Botany Of Desire, A Plant's-Eye View Of The World
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ISBN: 978-0-747-55789-0
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing - 2002
Synopsis: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
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