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beckca03's review against another edition
2.0
Eh... not nearly as impressed as I was with The Omnivore's Dilemma. I actually stopped listening halfway through because I was pretty bored :(
lee_nuhh's review against another edition
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.0
An interesting journey through different crops and what they have meant to mankind (and mankind to them) over centuries. Loved the sections on apples and cannabis, and the storytelling in general. Can't get enough of Michael Pollan!
avesmaria's review against another edition
4.0
This book, written before Pollan's more-famous "Omnivore's Dilemma," is captivating, wide-ranging, and a very interesting cultural study about the extent that plants have domesticated humanity, although I think his art history is a little under-researched and fuzzy. Although in the past I have found some of Pollan's writing a bit too snobbish and blind to reality, I think he has made incredibly important contributions to the public discourse on the nature of plants - specifically the ones we ingest - and he certainly belongs in the pantheon of modern science and nature writers. This book didn't disappoint. I filled the whole thing up with thoughts and annotations.