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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug is a 2020 non-fiction book by Augustine Sedgewick. It's a social, economic, and political history of the production and use of coffee and its effect on society — "A history that charts the 400-year transformation of coffee from a mysterious Ottoman custom to an everyday necessity for many."
James Alexander Hoffmann (born 1979/1980) [2] is an English barista, YouTuber, entrepreneur, coffee consultant, and author.Hoffmann first came to prominence after winning the World Barista Championship in 2007 and has since been credited as a pioneer of Britain's third-wave coffee movement.
Editor’s Note: This is part of an occasional series, “I Just Don’t Get It,” a contrarian look at a popular person, thing, activity or cultural phenomenon. I get that you all love coffee. I ...
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
A coffee competition judge shares with us the ins-and-outs of what it takes to roast the best coffee in the world.
Much of the popularization of coffee is due to its cultivation in the Arab world, beginning in what is now Yemen, by Sufi monks in the 15th century. [2] Through thousands of Muslims pilgrimaging to Mecca, the enjoyment and harvesting of coffee, or the "wine of Araby" spread to other countries (e.g. Turkey, Egypt, Syria) and eventually to a majority of the world through the 16th century.
Coffee cultivation spread like wildfire through the New World's tropical locales in the late 18th and 19th centuries, reaching Costa Rica in 1779, Mexico in 1790, El Salvador in 1840, and ...
Coffee beans The old port of Trieste where most of the coffee for Central Europe was handled for a long time. Coffee is a popular beverage and an important commodity. Tens of millions of small producers in developing countries make their living growing coffee. Over 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world daily.