Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine

by Melanie King and Dina Nayeri

Book Overview

Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men 'unfit to do their business' and blamed for women becoming unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of chocolate was supposed to have exactly the opposite effect on the drinker's sex life and physical appearance. These three beverages arrived in England in the 1650s from faraway, exotic places: tea from China,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244069
• ISBN13: 9781851244065
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 3.2" x 8.2"