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The devil's cup coffee, the driving force in history

Stewart Lee Allen

A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

This book, about the journey of coffee from Ethiopia to the world, inspired James Hoffmann's love for coffee and its diverse cultures. He mentioned it as a travelogue following coffee's route globally.

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I got into coffee at 23 I didn't like coffee, I didn't drink coffee and then I read a book called The Devil's Cup It's a fun book I don't know how well it's aged but it's just travel writing so he tra...

— Episode: The Coffee Expert: The Surprising Link B...

Episode: The Coffee Expert: The Surprising Link Between Cof...

This book, about the journey of coffee from Ethiopia to the world, inspired James Hoffmann's love for coffee and its diverse cultures. He mentioned it as a travelogue following coffee's route globally.

"

I got into coffee at 23 I didn't like coffee, I didn't drink coffee and then I read a book called The Devil's Cup It's a fun book I don't know how well it's aged but it's just travel writing so he traces the route the coffee took from Ethiopia to Yemen through Turkey into the Mediterranean how it spread around the world and what got me about that book was coffee is in every culture and it's different

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