Ms. de Troy: You're going to a book club discussion of Botany of Desire with Michael Pollan himself?! Cool?!

I'm reading the book right now, and it's really great, Very interesting, vastly easier to read than much of non-fiction, and full of all kinds of cool little historical and scientific factoids. I love the whole debunking (forgive the loaded term here) of the legend of Johnny Appleseed - turns out he was planting seeds to grow apple trees to make applejack liquor, and that's why he was so popular.