Writer A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every person who had a hand in his morning cup of coffee. He started with the barista and kept going: the people who roasted it, the truckers who hauled it, the farmers who grew it, even the folks who made the cup and the lid. The list kept growing until he had thanked about a thousand people, which became his book ‘Thanks a Thousand.’ He found out that one simple cup of coffee depends on a huge web of people we never see.
