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1) A Five Gun Salute to the Origins of Coffee

A History of Coffee

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The Prosperity of Mocha

Today, when we pick up a coffee in our local cafe, what is the chance that that coffee is from Yemen? No point, no, no, 1% I should think. That's almost a rounding error. In effect, for many years, it has been treated as a roundingerror. But Jonathan, I know that today the port of how Mocha looks rather different. Let me just quickly search this in Ecosia. Yeah. Alright, so Jonathan, I can count maybe six rusty fishing vessels and not a lot going on. Very little going on. It's of such a far cry from the prosperity and the wealth and the busyness of that previous image.

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