Most Delicious Poison

Join the Garden Forum Collaborative for a book talk! The JC Raulston Arboretum has joined with the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Sarah P Duke Gardens, Durham Garden Forum, and Durham County Master Gardeners to bring you a night with Dr. Noah Whiteman, author of “Most Delicious Poison.”

Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, “Most Delicious Poison” reveals the origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes and even some animals, the mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them, and how a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience. This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but is also intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable or even the last 500 years of human history, the same way again.