Kitchen Cabinet » Food film http://kitchencabinet.blog.gustavus.edu Advisory body to Dining Services Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Watch The Botony of Desire http://kitchencabinet.blog.gustavus.edu/2009/11/02/watch-the-botony-of-desire/ http://kitchencabinet.blog.gustavus.edu/2009/11/02/watch-the-botony-of-desire/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:35:25 +0000 Joe Lencioni http://kitchencabinet.blog.gustavus.edu/?p=477 bottany-of-desirePBS is currently running  a special based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, The Botany of Desire, in which he explores the question, “do plants use humans as much as we use them?”

…this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world, seen from the plants’ point of view. The program shows how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, cannabis and the potato — evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control.

Watch the whole thing online over at PBS.

The Botany of Desire

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http://gustavus.edu/video/admission/campuslife/food.php

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The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

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