Book · 1999 · Nonfiction
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Basic Books (Hachette) · 480 pages
★ 4.4 editorial score
Pendergrast traces coffee from an Ethiopian hillside to the corner cafe, through Brazilian slave plantations and the US-backed coup in Guatemala, and shows how grocery marketing wars made American coffee undrinkable.
