## The Hidden History of Beverages
**Type:** Book | **Status:** Published

Why were some drinks blessed and taxed while others were banned? The first half of this book follows the drinks people have reached for — and finds that among drinks of comparable strength, whether a drink was blessed or banned had more to do with trade than with what it gives the people who drink it. The second half is for anyone looking for an alternative to coffee: 28 caffeine-free drinks made from leaves, flowers, berries, roots and bark. Every plant was checked against the herbal monographs of the European Medicines Agency — and where a plant has none, the chapter says so. Second edition, 2026. AI-generated: the first edition was co-written by the author with the DeepSeek language model; this second edition was fact-checked and revised with Claude (Anthropic).

📖 **Apple Books:** https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-hidden-history-of-beverages/id6756108723
🛒 **Other stores:** https://books2read.com/u/mqlAwO
🤖 **MCP Server:** https://herbalmind.bar/mcp
🌐 **Book site:** https://herbalmind.bar

*Tags: AI co-authorship, beverage history, philosophy, herbal recipes, consciousness*