(Penguin Press)In his distinctive journalistic form, Michael Pollan, food writer and garden sage, takes a closer look at three plant “drugs” humans use to alter our consciousness: opium, caffeine, and mescaline. Given the focused scope of this book, I was amazed the wealth of information presented wasn’t even exhaustive — I’d consume an entire book by Pollan on any one of these plants. I put drugs in quotations earlier because it seems Pollan isn’t fully committed to calling them that. He delves into the cl … (read more)
