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Medicine Quest
Mark Plotkin ISBN 0140262105
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Mark Plotkin ISBN 0140262105
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This book by Mark Plotkin has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Mark Plotkin, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-11-11 and the most recent from 2022-07-22. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines.
“when i was working on a book called medicine quest about 30 years ago i interviewed john daly”— Mark Plotkin
The guest here is Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin: Hamilton Morris is a chemist, filmmaker, and science journalist who writes and directs the documentary series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. Dr. Mark Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, president of the Amazon Conservation Team, and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice; here he hosts and interviews Morris for his Plants of the Gods podcast. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin interviews chemist Hamilton Morris on the history, chemistry, and conservation of psychoactive substances.
“I was reading this book recently called medicine Quest by an ethnobotanist named Mark Plotkin and I'm hoping to excerpt some of it on the blog”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Marco Canora: James Beard award-winning chef and owner of Hearth restaurant in NYC's East Village, who trained under Danny Meyer and Tom Colicchio at Gramercy Tavern and Craft. He helped launch America's bone broth trend with his Brodo brand and is the author of cookbooks including 'Salt to Taste' and 'Brodo'. Chef Marco Canora and Tim Ferriss riff on simple cooking, blood-sugar self-experiments, bone broth, food processing, and making perfect gnocchi.
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