For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleA fascinating read with a very unique perspective. I really liked that Pollan looked at evolution from the plant's perspective. It was so simple, yet so novel and interesting. I especially enjoyed the chapters on apples and potatoes.There is a lot of i...
Pollan... heheh, surely that can't be a coincidence... anyway Pollan covers four plants: apples, tulips, cannabis, and potatoes. Apples covers Johnny Appleseed and Kazakhstan, tulips the Dutch tulip bubble; cannabis; potatoesｅｎｄ ｒｅｓｕｌｔ：ａｐｐｌｅｓ ５／５ｔｕｌｉｐｓ ４／５ｃａｎｎａｂｉｓ ５／５ｐｏｔａｔｏｅｓ ３／５ａｖｅｒａｇｅ： ４。２５nice, i...
The author’s starting premise in The Botany of Desire has two fascinating parts. First, that plants benefit greatly from domestication, so our relationship with them could just as easily be viewed as them domesticating us. And second, that domesticated plants have evolved to meet some basic human de...
Writing is not Michael Pollan's strong suit. It took me several weeks of subway reading to slog through this short collection of essays.But the thesis is interesting--Pollan recasts the relationship between plants and humans as a symbiotic one, in which people do not so much domesticate plants as fa...
I'm not sure I'm ever going to eat potatoes again! I'll think of that part of this book every time I want a potato. In some way, that's all I've gotten from this book. It was good overall, but that's the one thing I'm going to remember from this book. Like the corn people in Pollan's The Omnivore's ...
I love books that open my eyes, teach me something, and even go so far as to re-educate me on the fallacies foisted upon me by ill-informed grammar school teachers. To that last end, I found the chapter on Johnny Appleseed very enlightening as well as highly entertaining. Pollan is more humorous and...
Apples. Tulips. Marijuana. Potatoes.Third subject aside, I didn't see how these topics could be at all provocative. But then of course I'd forgotten about Tulipomania and the Great Potato Famine, the former being a bizarre highlight in world history, and I had never guessed at how intricate the stor...
Pollan represents one of my favorite types of writers: modern polymaths who can bring scientific, historic and literary knowledge to bear on whatever they're writing about. When it's done well, I don't care what the question is; for instance, tulips aren't really my thing, despite their presence on...
In his usual fashion, Michael Pollan has taken a topic that many of us take for granted - in this case vegetation and it's relationship to man - and turned it on it's head. In the Botany of Desire, Pollan sets out to explain the history of plant evolution, how co-evolution works, and how the desire...
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