Eleanor Perenyi was for many years the managing editor of "Mademoiselle," an editor at "Harper's Bazaar," and a contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's," and "Esquire" magazines. She is the author of a biography of Franz Liszt, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and "More Was Lost," a memoir of her marriage to a Hungarian baron. She lives on the Connecticut coast. Michael Pollan is the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Botany of Desire" and "Second Nature," named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society...