And yet few coffee consumers know the path-geographical, political, even karmic-that their beloved bean has taken. Now our collective fashions and addictions have made the bean ubiquitous and coffee snobbery de rigeur. Once the exclusive treat of nobility and religious men, coffee would go on to fuel the common man through the industrial age and into the information age. SINCE THE FIRST BEANS WERE serendipitously discovered by the legendary goatherd Kaldi, in Ethiopia, coffee has been the muse and stimulus of imams, artists, writers, and radicals. UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World By Mark Pendergrast Basic Books, $27.50
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