Most of us treat caffeine like electricity: We don’t care to know how it works; we just flip the switch and the power turns on.
Here’s what happens when you flip the caffeine switch…
- Caffeine streams throughout the body
- Caffeine enters the brain
- Caffeine changes how you feel and think
- Caffeine produces short and long-term effects
- Caffeine acts differently in moderation than in high doses
- Caffeine makes us want more of it
Caffeine Basics: Table of Contents
I’m an author and journalist specializing in food and cooking. Caffeine Basics is my ninth book. I’ve written about the U.S. wine industry, international foods, shrinking your “cookprint,” and cooking with kids. Great Bar Food at Home was a James Beard Award finalist, and Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen won a Green Book Award. Publishers include John Wiley & Sons, ClarksonPotter, Macmillan and others.
