Jennifer’s Reviews > A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence > Status Update

"The only viable substitute for tea was coffee, and it is no mere coincidence that between 1770 and the 1790s per capita coffee consumption in the United States increased more than sevenfold. Although it too was imported, coffee did not carry the same social or political stigma as tea. Americans started brewing beans instead of leaves during the Revolution and never looked back." p. 17