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Coffee: The Deadly Brew that Saved the Union
When my grandmother, Almeda Day, married my grandfather little did she realize that she would end up living in Mexico in a little Latter-day Saint settlement that banned the drinking of coffee. Well, she drank it anyway. My father said that when he was a little boy, he would find her brewing coffee early each morning and never failed to warn her: “Grandma, that coffee will kill you!” “Well, she just wouldn’t listen,” he said.
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