The American SetA Nation Still Runs on Its Morning Cup
The National Coffee Association reports that roughly two-thirds of American adults begin the day with coffee, a habit so ordinary it rarely gets a second thought. Its staying power is easy to overlook given how far back the drink's story runs, through Sufi ritual and even papal scrutiny before it ever reached an American kitchen counter. What survives from all that history is oddly simple: the bitterness itself, the part most drinkers would say they can't do without.
With reporting from The Collector.
