A dark, rich history of coffee (with a bitter after-taste): The bean that took over the world
HISTORY Coffeeland : A HistoryBy Augustine Sedgewick (Allen Lane £25, 448 pp) Have you ever scanned the blizzard of drinks on offer at your nearest Costa and thought, ‘I just want a cup of coffee’? If so, then maybe this book — more than 350 pages of dense political history of the erogenous little bean — isn’t for you.But on second thoughts, perhaps we should know the ...
