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The Botany of Desire A Plant's-Eye View of the World is divided up into 4 sections, each focusing on one 'desire' and a corresponding plant.
What are the four plants?
a. apple, tulip, marijuana, potato
b. rose, oak tree, corn, soy
c. mushroom, apple, bamboo, carrot
d. corn, marijuana, orchid, potato
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The Botany of Desire A Plant's-Eye View of the World is divided up into 4 sections, each focusing on one 'desire' and a corresponding plant.
What are the four plants?
a. apple, tulip, marijuana, potato
b. rose, oak tree, corn, soy
c. mushroom, apple, bamboo, carrot
d. corn, marijuana, orchid, potato
More trivia...
Michael Pollan
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February 06, 1955
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Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.
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Michael Pollan on tour for the book "In Defense of Food"
Author appearance, December 07, 2009 08:00PM
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See Michael Pollan on tour promoting the book "In Defense of Food"
Author appearance, December 07, 2009 08:00PM
JCC of San Francisco, 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA, The United States
See Michael Pollan on tour promoting the book "In Defense of Food"
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
— Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)
— Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)
"He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration."
— Michael Pollan
— Michael Pollan
"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
— Michael Pollan
— Michael Pollan
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