Several years before this publication, Ernesto Illy had an article in Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complexity-of-coffee/ h

Several years before this publication, Ernesto Illy had an article in Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complexity-of-coffee/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complexity-of-... The article is funny in one respect: SciAm is pretty strict against anything remotely resembling corporate PR disguised as science reporting. However, it was such a good article, and most of the science community is so caffeine addicted, that the editors gave him a pass.