On its centuries-long path to becoming a world commodity and a global drink, coffee was a tool to build empires and fuel an industrial revolution.
And it sometimes was a not-so-hidden driving force behind human exploitation, slavery and violent civil war..
Writing in Practical Ethics, a publication of the University of Oxford, Nadira Faber, a researcher in experimental psychology, explores the idea that the group dynamic goes more smoothly when participants are caffeinated, not just because caffeine drinkers were more alert and less tired, but more sociable as well..
Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century.
Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915..
Coffee culture is the set of traditions and social behaviors that surround the consumption of coffee, particularly as a social lubricant.
The term also refers to the cultural diffusion and adoption of coffee as a widely consumed stimulant..
Coffee shops arenotisolated from society or from market place competition - they are spaces for consumption, both material and social
Since they are privately owned public places, the owners have the right to enforce rules that exclude people who do not conform to the owner's vision of the ideal client
In the case of coffee shops, the social reality istoo complex and differentthan when Oldenburg was writing in the late 1980s
As active users of the space, coffee shop patrons create places and redefine the space according to what they think it can be used for, within what it can be used for according to social norms
2003 anthology film directed by Jim Jarmusch
Injection of coffee into the colon
