![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "One of the ironies about coffee is it makes people think. ![]() Europeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of the world, and this frequently meant they enslaved people in order to grow it. He cites a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in which the Founding Father proclaims his love of tea but says he will have to learn to embrace coffee instead, because drinking tea had become unpatriotic.įor all the upsides coffee has brought the modern world, it also ushered in its fair share of downsides, too. "There's a lot of truth to the story, I found," Pendergrast says. It is often said that after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists raided British tea ships and threw crates of tea into the harbor, Americans universally switched over to drinking coffee. Literature, newspapers and even the works of great composers like Bach and Beethoven were also spawned in coffeehouses. The insurer Lloyd's of London was founded hundreds of years ago in one of London's 2,000 coffeehouses, he notes. Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas. "It actually had a major impact on the rise of business," Pendergrast says. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Uncommon Grounds Subtitle The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Author Mark Pendergrast ![]()
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