The Dark and Beautiful History of Coffee
From an Ethiopian highland to 2.25 billion cups a day — the drink in your hand has one of the strangest, darkest, and most beautiful stories in human history. On the night of August 14, 1791, in a forest clearing somewhere in the mountains of Saint-Domingue — the island we now call Haiti — a group of enslaved men and women gathered in secret. They lit torches. They made a … READ MORE ➜