“Like many of you, I have become obsessed with coffee during the pandemic. It is one of the few pleasures which does not make me grow man breasts. (Shout out to Plowshares Coffee on the upper west side, the best beans.) This book studies how coffee, the everyday commodity has shaped the world, the global economy, and geopolitics. The book delves into how a segue in demand for heap coffee from the American blue-collar workforce alert requires laborers in the southern hemisphere to forgo sleep as they pick and pluck around the clock. A trade pioneered by a Mancunian, James Hill, who went to El Salvador and built an industrial kingdom of 18 plantations, which used Manchester factory-style poverty to make coffee cheaply around the world. Think the Gary Neville of coffee. The storytelling is occasionally jumbled, but the anecdotes Sedgewick tells are magnificent. You will never look at the beans you hold in your hand the same again, even when they are ground into the greatest capachoochoo.” -Rog
-Rog
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