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Allen, Stewart Lee. The Devil's Cup: a Hist...

 Many coffee enthusiasts love to joke that coffee was discovered by goats in the sixth century and they’re not wrong. No one knows exactly when or where coffee was first discovered, but the most popul...

 Coffee was not originally consumed in the roasted bean, boiled water method that we are accustomed to today. The Oromo people of Ethiopia would take fresh coffee beans and mash them into a paste, mix...