The Devil''s Cup (eBook)

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

Stewart Lee Allen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
240 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-751-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it''s time for empire building.So goes Stewart Lee Allen''s crazy theory.Only thing is, after retracing coffee''s journey to world domination - by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey - he has plenty of evidence to back it up.Stewart Lee Allen has filtered out the richest beans from coffee''s hot and frothy history . . . serving up a steamy, high-energy brew that will stimulate you more than a triple-strength espresso. As they might say in Starbucks: ''Enjoy.''

Autor

Currently living in Brooklyn, Stewart Lee Allen has also called California, Kathmandu, Sydney, San Cristobel, Calcutta and San Francisco home. When not lounging about a caf� in a far-flung corner of the globe, he has worked as a grape-picker, theatrical director, bathroom attendant, grave-digger, punk musician, smuggler and, of course, a writer. He is the author of the award-winning fiction collection The Art of Rape as well as his acclaimed history of coffee, The Devil's Cup.

Rezensionen

Stewart Lee Allen certainly delivers ... he cuts a caffeine-fuelled arc that runs from coffee's Ethiopian origins, through its Arabian distillation, across its European domestication, before terminating in a cross-country search for the worst cup of American coffee ... a funny book that takes some funny routes.

this is lively, interesting stuff, laced with dry wit and canny observations.

Two parts travelogue and history to one part caffeine-fuelled theory ... From the genteel cafes of Vienna to wired, late night email conversations on the internet, the book celebrates coffee's ability to sharpen the mind and give society a jolt. Not just mocha do about nothing.

I loved this informal bio of the humble cup of joe... Allen's funky history provides the answer and sets the standard.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2014
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-84767-751-7 / 1847677517
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-751-8 / 9781847677518