A people's history of coffee and cafés
By: Bob Biderman
Publisher: Black Apollo Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Cambridge]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781900355773; 9781900355780
Subjects: Kaffee; Kaffeehaus; Coffee; History; Coffeehouses
Description: A People's History of Coffee and Cafes is an exploration of how a certain plant became a global commodity, creating fortunes and despair, bringing people together and tearing them apart, playing a staring role in the remarkable awakening of our modern world. The theme is coffee; the venue is the coffeehouse - one of the few places where prince and pauper might meet on equal footing. But where did coffee come from? And how did it get to us? For in the course of a single generation, coffee burst onto the European scene like an Arabian Sirocco without the trumpeting of the media, as we know it, paving the way for a new and wonderful product.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.