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Dark Roast: What You Didn't Know About the Dark History of Coffee

Summary by Revista Central
Forget for a moment your favorite way of drinking coffee, think of coffee as what has really been for centuries: a suspicious, subversive drink, and sometimes a bit cursed. So powerful that it was forbidden by sultans, hated by kings, worshipped by revolutionaries and exploited by empires. Because yes: before it was your morning ritual, coffee was accused of inciting thought, chaos, desire. It was cultivated with slavery, adulterated with ink, p…
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Forget for a moment your favorite way of drinking coffee, think of coffee as what has really been for centuries: a suspicious, subversive drink, and sometimes a bit cursed. So powerful that it was forbidden by sultans, hated by kings, worshipped by revolutionaries and exploited by empires. Because yes: before it was your morning ritual, coffee was accused of inciting thought, chaos, desire. It was cultivated with slavery, adulterated with ink, p…

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Revista Central broke the news in on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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