I have to go get dressed and ready for dinner, so more #PlantsGiving plant facts when I get home, from my kitchen hand soap through appetizers and main courses to dessert!

I'm digestively sensitive to artificial sweeteners, so my toothpaste contains cinnamon and clove (which I'll discuss later with pie) and carrageenan derived from Chondrus crispus, a red algae in the Gigartinaceae family - not a plant, but plantlike. #PlantsGiving

I used a number of plants for washing up and self-care this morning and while cooking. It's Shark Week, so I've been using Lola tampons made of upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, a member of the Malvaceae (mallow) family native to the tropical Americas. #PlantsGiving

The coffee I drank for breakfast was Death Wish Medium Roast, an organic and fair trade blend of Coffea arabica (native to Ethiopia) and Coffea canephora var. robusta (native to Western/Central Africa), in the Rubiaceae family. Death Wish sources most of its beans from India and Peru. #PlantsGiving

Bananas are the best-known member of the Musaceae family. Cultivated bananas are a hybrid, Musa × paradisiaca, of two species native to Indonesia. The one I ate this morning was organic and grown in Ecuador. #PlantsGiving

For sweetness and flavoring, Fruity Cheerios contain cane sugar and pear puree. There's also some sugar in my coffee creamer. Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, is another true grass, native to New Guinea. Pears, Pyrus communis, are in the rose and pear family, Rosaceae. #PlantsGiving

Breakfast was Fruity Cheerios, coffee, and a banana. The main ingredient in Cheerios is oats, Avena sativa, a member of the Poaceae (true grasses) family native to western Asia. Cheerios also contain corn products, Zea mays, another true grass, native to Mexico. #PlantsGiving

Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.

His recent turn in Swan Song, playing a retired elderly gay hairdresser who goes on a day-long odyssey from his old folks’ home to style the hair of his best former client (with whom he was close but from whom he is now alienated) one last time for her funeral, was perfect.

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