Four human desires: sweetness, beauty, poisoning and control. Four plants which are capable of satisfying them: the apple, the tulip, the marihuana and the potato.
At The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan tells the story of the relationship among the human being and those four vegetables, and the way to domesticate them until getting to adapt their characteristics to some of the most basic human instincts.
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