Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World | 
“Beginning as a medical drink for the elite, coffee became the favored modern stimulant of the blue-collar worker during his break, the gossip starter in middle-class kitchens, the romantic binder for wooing couples, and the sole bitter companion of the lost soul. Coffeehouses have provided places to plan revolutions, write poetry, do business, and meet friends”.
I'm doing a paper. I wonder what it‘s on🤔☕️.
I need to amend my daughters mug to add, "never underestimate the power of a girl with a good book- who also got enough sleep and didn't stay up all night reading..." ?
panThank you, but no thank you.
The subject matter was interesting and the first and final chapters engrossing, but the middle was so littered with numeric information (provided in-line, not like figures as it would be in a sociological text) that there were at least two per page. 7 million dollars there, 250 tonnes of beans there, I lost both track and interest. Also so many life stories of 19th century capitalists, I'm sorry but I don't CARE .
A break for a funny quote in between all the neverending numbers and international negotiations.
Roof terrace reading. Too many names, but at least they were somewhat relevant in this chapter.
I'm in photo editing hell. I lost access to a6 in vsco but even if I try to pay them to get it back, it won't let me. Trying out lightroom rn but it's not the exact same.
Coffee, with coffee, gotta hurry because the book is due back.
Coffee with coffee book! Although it's bright enough out now that sunglasses are warranted.
Reading coffee but drinking hot chocolate because tummy says nope. Oh well.
This book!! So many interesting tidbits about my favorite beverage!! Several passages and factoids to follow 😬☕️
>>Forgot to post yesterday's #bookstagram. Here's a book on #MountTBR, about one of my passions: coffee!! I imagine coffee has an interesting history ☕️
Status: TBR
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A “forgotten” gift from hubby today. Coaster from local coffee shop we frequent. Excited to read this book!
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick march into motion like batallions of a grand army to its legndary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the calvary of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop. Forms, shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink--for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of thick black water. --Honor de Balzac, writing about drinking coffee while writing
Possibly the cradle of mankind, the ancient land of Abyssinia, now called Ethiopia, is the birthplace of coffee.
