The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to a cavernous coffeehouse in Calcutta, the drinking spot for two of India’s three Nobel Prize winners ... from Parisian salons and cafés where the French Revolution was born, to the roadside diners and chain restaurants of the good ol’ USA, where something resembling brown water passes for coffee, Allen wittily proves that the world was wired long before…
Stewart Lee Allen is the author of The Devil’s Garden and The Devil’s Cup, which have been published in several countries. He is also a journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as LA Weekly, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among others. Author of The Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in New York City, Allen now resides in Brooklyn, NY, having previously lived in Paris, Sydney, Katmandu, and Calcutta.
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
Stewart Lee Allen