by Michael Pollan. Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers. The bee collects the nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers genes far and wide. This book demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. Pollan masterfully links four fundamental human desires-sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control-with the plants that satisfy them. He illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearning. And just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants have also benefited a least as much from their association with us. So who is really domesticating whom?