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In the XX century, an English trader James Gill, with his cunning and vigour, managed to establish a whole caviar empire in the Republic of El Salvador. How did he do it? The author of this book, a researcher of the history of food, work and capitalism, a member of the Harvard Scientific «Project for the Study of Justice, Welfare and Economics» Augustin Sedgwick, tells this fantastic and unlikely story. He shows how we drink kava every day and do not even think about the conditions under which it could have been harvested and milled. On James Gill's plantations, conditions were unhumane — kava became almost a symbol of capitalism, and the people who were in the charge of the plantation owner had to work harder and harder.

This history will actually explain to the readers macroeconomic, social and political processes on a very familiar and simple application — the process of cultivation of kava grains.