A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola

Name: A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola
Author: Ricardo Cortés

by Ricardo Cortés

From Ricardo Cortés , the illustrator behind the irreverent modern classic Go The Fuck To Sleep , comes A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola ( UK ; public library ) — a fascinating and beautifully illustrated piece of visual journalism, six years in the making, tracing the little-known interwoven histories of coffee, the coca leaf and kola nut, Coca-Cola, caffeine, and cocaine, within a larger subtext of the role of prohibition in modern culture.

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Maria Popova

"From Ricardo Cortés , the illustrator behind the irreverent modern classic Go The Fuck To Sleep , comes A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola ( UK ; public library ) — a fascinating and beautifully illustrated piece of visual journalism, six years in the making, tracing the little-known interwoven histories of coffee, the coca leaf and kola nut, Coca-Cola, caffeine, and cocaine, within a larger subtext of the role of prohibition in modern culture."

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