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“Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а в ту добу флорі давали латинські назви.”
Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
“Complicating the work further was the fact that Latin American buyers were known to have a taste for the world’s finest things even when they could not afford to pay the world’s highest prices. As a result, European manufacturers “sought constantly to improve one element of quality, that of finish, whilst at the same time avoiding parallel improvements in other elements, notably in fineness.”
Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
“...means the destruction of our nation just as surely as it
meant the destruction of Egypt and Rome and Spain and Germany and all the other nations who came to
measure their greatness by their material possessions rather than by their passion for justice.”
Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

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