The Devil’s CupWritten by Stewart Lee Allen

Marissa Endow

Overview

We follow Stewart Lee Allen

Coffee, coffee and more coffee!

World travel plays a huge factor

Ethiopia, Yemen, Turkey, Vienna, Paris, Brazil & America

Did coffee have a lasting global impact?

Ethiopia: The start of it

all… First place we visit as the reader

Coffee was discovered here first, here it was born.

Friendship ceremony

Harrar

Muslim village

Witchcraft, magic and slavery

The influential role of isolation

Magic?

Ceremonies, exorcisms, healing powers

Sacrifice

Rumors of “psychedelic powers” sparked the trade of coffee

Egypt

Harrar Red Sea

Prayer From an Ethiopian Cult:

Coffee pot give us peace

Coffee pot let children grow

Let our wealth swell

Protect us from the evils

Qat “Coffee’s Evil Sister”

Leafy, addictive drug

Destroyed the economy

Threatened coffee’s existence

Narcotic sometimes considered

equal to heroin.

Heavily affected Yemen

The Turks

Control over the port of Mocha (al-Makkah)

The Turks introduced coffee to many countries including France and Austria.

They also developed the modern coffee cup

They practice a similar custom to the Ethiopian friendship ceremony

Who is Murad IV? How was his ban of coffee in Turkey affect the rest of the coffee world?

Vienna

Kolschitzky first café, using abandoned beans left behind by the Turks.

Was he working alone?

Among earliest coffee drinkers in Europe

The cappuccino, kapuziner

This name and specific type of coffee itself is derived from the Viennese monks.

A Revolution!

Drinking alcohol represented wealth

“Drunk as a lord”

Affecting all of Europe

Coffee was an alternative

“Black Wine”

Sparked the creation of coffeehouses everywhere

Taverns vs. Coffeehouses, “modern office”? Banned!

Paris

Camille Desmoulins

1789

Rebellion, mobs, chaos … in a café

Outcome is the government being overthrown

Coffee Power

Wherever the bean goes, the output is success!

Ottomans

Arabs

Great Britain

Pre-Caffeinated Man vs. Caffeinated man

Brazil

Slavery cultivation of coffee

Deforestation

Cultural exchange

French Brazilians

De Cleui (1717)

America

He takes route 66, in search for the best cup of coffee

Coffee houses lead to…

Stock exchange

Competition

Exchange of ideas

Present day Is the United States being affected by an addiction?

It’s Effect on Western Civilization

Resistance & Enlightenment

Revolutions

Major Events

Slave Trade

Cultural Exchange

Politics

Religion

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