Peter Carty

Fit for the gods

Revered as gods, its rulers would never touch food with their own hands, while their subjects prostrated themselves in the dust — and ate it

  • Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee, from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup

    Jeff Koehler

    Bloomsbury, pp. 254

  • The Philosophy of Coffee

    Brian Williams

    The British Library, pp. 80

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