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Caffeine; Caffeine How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A short (2+ hours) but pretty much right-sized and very entertaining discussion of coffee & tea and how they've affected modern civilization. Once past the origins of both products, there appeared to be more focus on Western rather than Eastern cultures. Also, despite the fact that early English coffeehouses were male-only places, there was no discussion of women's coffee or tea culture during that time. No salons? And, later, no suffragette meetings with tea?

This is an informal, first-person "article" with several sections linked by the author's attempt to get free of caffeine himself while continuing to work. (He succeeds, but only temporarily.) I obtained it as a free Audible item, & found it well worth my time. Given the length, I wouldn't recommend it for a full credit purchase, but fellow caffeine fiends might enjoy it as a half credit or discount purchase.



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