Coffee

A Drink for the Devil

Paul Chrystal

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781445648408
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

In the Western world, coffee consumption is around one-third that of tap water. After petroleum, coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the world. Over 7 million metric tons are produced annually. By the end of 2015, Great Britain had more than 20, 000 coffee shops across the country, and even after fifteen years of rapid expansion, Britain's coffee-shop sector still continues to grow. Despite the fact that a pope once called it 'the devil's drink', there is a jar in every kitchen and it is a fact of life that drinking coffee is here to stay. Whether you drink instant or fresh, decaff or espresso, this book brings together the facts and ephemera relating to this globally crucial beverage, examining its origins and the stories of its discovery, its production and its growing popularity over time. In doing so it shines a light on coffee's important place in British life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Introduction
• 1 - Ethiopia, the Yemen and How It All Started
• 2 - Coffee Comes to Europe: The Coffee House Revolution
• 3 - Coffee Comes to England: The Seventeenth-Century World Wide Web
• 4 - Coffee Goes West and East
• 5 - Modern Coffee Culture
• 6 - Coffee in Words, Music and Film
• 7 - It’s the Coffee Talking: Some Famous Coffee Quotations
• 8 - Coffee and Health: Elixir or Poison?
• 9 - Twenty-First-Century Coffee
• Further Reading (With One More Cup of Coffee)
• Acknowledgements