From Publishers Weekly
Jacob was a German poet, novelist and journalist who was based for some time in Vienna, still and ever the home of the coffeehouse. Coffee, for Jacob, was the “anti-Bacchus…the great resurrector, that gave me courage and vigor.” In 1935, he and his friend, the publisher Ernst Rowohlt, contravened the Nazi ban on Jacob’s work to publish his “documentary novel” of coffee. The author does a masterful job of tracing the popularity of coffee from Yemen through Europe and the Americas, recording its reputation not only within the commercial sphere but within the medical and religious ones as well. However, this is much more important as a glimpse of attitudes toward coffee in the ’30s than as a general his [Read More...]
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