The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee: A History of the World According to Coffee (Allen Stewart Lee)(Paperback)

"Absolutely riveting . . . Essential reading for foodies, java-junkies, anthropologists, and anyone else interested in funny, sardonically told adventure stories."
--Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential Full of historical insights and laced with humor, The Devil's Cup is not only a history of coffee, but a travelogue of a risk-taking seeker. 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
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