Grounds for drinking java

by Barbara Quinn

Knight Ridder Newspapers

"SO, WHEN DID you start drinking coffee?" I asked my friend after she had worked on a guest ranch in Colorado for a year. "When I had to start work at 6:45 in the morning and there was 8 inches of snow on the ground and the temperature was five degrees," she said.

Good answer. Coffee is the most abundantly consumed stimulant in the world. But it was not invented by a modern sage named Starbuck.

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