Daniel Stone is a writer on sci­ence, his­to­ry, and the envi­ron­ment, as well as the author of the nation­al best­selling The Food Explor­er: The True Adven­tures of the Globe-Trot­ting Botanist Who Trans­formed What Amer­i­ca Eats. He’s a for­mer staff writer for Nation­al Geo­graph­ic and a for­mer White House cor­re­spon­dent for Newsweek. He lives in San­ta Bar­bara with his wife and two sons, one of whom is a dog.