How do food and plants help us make sense of the world?

Musician Michelle Zauner talks about her latest project, — a memoir, Crying In H Mart — that tells the story of her mother's death. In it, Zauner writes about using the food they made to remember her mom.

And Beronda L. Montgomery, a biochemistry professor at Michigan State University, has a lot to say about how plants experience the world in her new book Lessons from Plants.

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