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

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  • ISBN 10 1641290102
  • ISBN 13 9781641290104
  • Published Nov 13 2018
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English
  • Edition Reprint
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Soho Press

Publishers Text

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 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 the Internet. And those who deny the power of coffee (namely tea-drinkers) do so at their own peril.

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