Coffee

I start most mornings with two or three cups of coffee, like millions of people around the world. It’s something I don’t believe I could do without for very long - and until I went looking, I had no idea how little I actually knew about it.

I’m no expert. But I found seven things about this ordinary drink that turned out to be genuinely surprising - and I wrote them down. Like: the goatherd everyone credits with discovering coffee almost certainly never existed. Or th…