We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

At this time to refuse or neglect to give coffee to their wives was a legitimate cause for divorce among the Turks.” William H. Ukers (1873-1945).

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants […] Within two hundred years of Europe’s first cup, famine and the plague were historical...

[Joffe], during a visit to Russia, complained to his KGB handler about the awful coffee. The KGB dude replied that it was really the Kremlin’s answer to America’s neutron bomb — both killed people but...

Beer for breakfast, ale for lunch, stout with dinner and a few mugs in between. The average Northern European, including women and children drank three liters of beer a day. That’s almost two six-packs, but...

Coffee and humanity both sprang from the same area in eastern Africa. What if some of those early ape-men nibbled on the bright red berries? What if the resulting mental stimulation opened them up to...