For 10 points, identify this cash crop and beverage whose retailers now include Folgers and Starbucks.
Mark Prendergast wrote a book subtitled "How Transformed the World." Gabriel de Clieu is credited with introducing this good to Martinique. The Dutchman Pieter van den Broeck smuggled a shipment of this substance from Yemen to Holland where it was cultivated before spreading to Indonesia. During the second half of the 19th century, this substance formed the mainstay of the Brazilian economy, and it's not (*) sugar but Brazil remains the largest producer today. According to legend, it was discovered by the Ethiopian goatherd Kaldi, and Americans supposedly declared this substance their national drink in 1773. For 10 points, identify this cash crop and beverage whose retailers now include Folgers and Starbucks.
Mark Prendergast wrote a book subtitled "How Transformed the World."
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