Wednesday, October 26, 2016

December Book Club Talk ‘Botany of Desire’

On Dec. 7, at 6 p.m. the Food For Thought Book Club will discuss “The Botany of Desire” by Michael Pollan. This book helped make the author, the New York Times bestselling author of “Cooked” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” one of the most trusted food experts in America.
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” Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship, linking four fundamental human desires —sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control — with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato.
The Food For Thought Book Club meets the first Wednesday of Every Month in the Gozzer Room at the library. The book club is offered in partnership with the Inland Northwest Food Network. For a list of upcoming books, check the INWFN website: inwfoodnetwork.org.

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