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In the 20th century, an English trader, James Gill, with his cunning and zealousness, managed to create 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 Research Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Augustin Sedgwick, tells this fantastic and unlikely story. He shows how we drink kava every day without even thinking about the conditions under which it could have been harvested and milled. The conditions on James Gill's plantations were unhuman - kava had become almost a symbol of capitalism, and the people who were in the employ 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 informal application - the process of growing kava grains.