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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

by Stewart L. Allen

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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 Indias 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 U.S.A., where something resembling brown water passes for coffee, Allen wittily proves that the world was wired long before the Internet. And those who deny the power of coffee (namely tea-drinkers) do so at their own peril.

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From the earliest evidence of a hallucinatory cacao bean paste in ancient Ethiopia to the modern coffee giant, Starbucks, readers follow Allen as he searches for the perfect "cuppa joe."

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780345441492

Editor:

Smetanka, Dan

Author:

Smetanka, Dan

Author:

Allen, Stewart Lee

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

Location:

New York

Subject:

History

Subject:

Parks & Campgrounds

Subject:

United States - Mountain - Montana

Subject:

Coffee

Subject:

United States - Mountain - Idaho

Subject:

Coffee -- Social aspects.

Subject:

Outdoors-Camping Guides

Copyright:

2003

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series Volume:

v. 6

Publication Date:

20030331

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

240

Dimensions:

8.26x5.54x.55 in. .51 lbs.

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Product details 240 pages Ballantine Books - 2010-06-30 English 9780345441492 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Libri, From the earliest evidence of a hallucinatory cacao bean paste in ancient Ethiopia to the modern coffee giant, Starbucks, readers follow Allen as he searches for the perfect "cuppa joe."