![]() ![]() It is both an easy and tremendously hard undertaking since coffee really accompanied revolutions, monarch's decisions to allow coffeehouses or to ban it for various political reasons, slavery, deforestation, depopulation, as well as globalization, the shrinkage of the rain forest and last but not least, a high level of inequity when comparing the hands that grow the coffee crops and harvest it with those that collect the money after having sold it and ultimately, those that bring it to the mouth every morning before going to work or during a coffee break in the developed countries. ![]() He travels in time back and forth and links this second most traded product in the world, after oil, coffee, to the main events in the history of mankind. Pendergast sets the starting point of his history of the coffee, time 0, as the time when, according to the Ethiopian legend, the goats had eaten the leaves and fruits of the coffee plants for the first time. Its name was linked to revolutions, revolts and mostly everything related to human passions. Ever since coffee entered the gate of human beverages, it slowly and irreversibly spread throughout the world. ![]() Mark Pendergast's book "Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World" is presenting a glorifying as well as a demonizing role coffee plaid ever since an Ethiopian goat herder discovered it, more than ten centuries ago. ![]()
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