![]() ![]() Spitting out the parchment, I finally get the two beans, which are covered by a diaphanous silver skin. Like peanuts, coffee beans usually grow in facing pairs. It takes a bit of tongue work to get down to the tough-skinned parchment protecting each bean. ![]() I pop the skin of a ripe coffee cherry open in my mouth and savor the sweet mucilage. In a recently released updated edition, Pendergrast paints a beautiful backdrop to the story at a Guatemalan coffee planation 4,500 feet above sea level: It may have taken a Founding Father to teach Americans how to make it, it wasn’t until Mark Pendergrast’s 1999 book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World ( public library) that coffee’s rich legacy and anthropology came into full bloom. Coffee - from its artful preparation to its secret history - holds enormous cultural mesmerism as the world’s favorite psychoactive drug. ![]()
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