caffeine

This bibliography on coffee, cacao, chocolate, and tea documents the long history of interest in these stimulating and popular beverages and is part of the Cullman Library’s reference collection.  Legend has it that coffee was discovered by a goat herder in the Ethiopian highlands who noticed that after eating the berries his goats would not go to sleep at night.  That story may not be in this bibliography, but from 16th-century herbals which first illustrated the plants to the rules of the Coffee Tavern Protection Society in 1889 (who knew?), this book has the subject covered.  Aside from