The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History"Disdaining forbidden borders and dangerous domains, he researches cults in Ethiopia that used coffee as a kind of sacrament, sails a dhow along the same lanes that carried the first beans to Yemen 1500 years ago, and treks to India where seedlings were smuggled. He walks the slave trails in Zaire along which coffee trees have grown from beans discarded by captives, and explores the ruins of a slave-operated coffee plantation in Brazil. He takes coffee with devotees in Istanbul, in the back alleys of Jiga Jiga and in the posh salons of Vienna and Paris, and London where coffeehouses evolved into stock exchanges, insurance brokerages and tabloid magazines."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Introduction The First | 21 |
Sailing to alMakkha | 39 |
An Evil Sister | 51 |
Copyright | |
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