People once used coffee to fuel extraordinary acts of worship and creativity. Now we rely on it to meet the demands of everyday life, writes historian Augustine Sedgewick.
April 4, 2020 12:01 am ETIts defining, namesake ingredient, caffeine, is not only the world’s most popular mind-altering drug—used regularly by perhaps 90% of the planet—but also, as Michael Pollan has noted, the
only one we routinely serve to children. This nearly universal acceptance is all the more striking considering that, for much of its 500-year history, coffee drinking was viewed with confusion, suspicion and disgust.
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