
Caffeine
How Caffeine Created the Modern World
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Narrated by:
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Michael Pollan
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By:
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Michael Pollan
About this listen
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What’s more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating. And caffeine has done all these things while hiding in plain sight! Percolated with Michael Pollan’s unique ability to entertain, inform, and perform, Caffeine is essential listening in a world where an estimated two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.
©2019 Michael Pollan (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.Great overview about coffee and the usage of the drink
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More please
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Good listen and interesting
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informative
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The author, who also narrates, mixes his personal experiment of giving up caffeine for the duration of writing the fascinating little book: how the plants, notably coffee and tea, have exploited us as we in turn have changed our world by their use.
An Audible Original, available for free from the Audible + programme, this is a witty, warm, and informative easy read, just right to hear over a prolonged (2 hour) coffee break
"Make mine a regular, please."
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Well worth the listen, especially with Pollans Narration
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Recommended for an entertaining, light listen that will deepen your appreciation of a morning brew. If you're looking for a deeper dive with timelines and more precise science and history, however, this isn't your cup of tea. Still, I drank this in an afternoon, and it went down like a cup of sunshine.
A double espresso with sugar
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interesting
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A must, especially if you are a caffeine consumer
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Interesting but too short
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