My love for making latte recipes has come to a halt with the news I need to balance my hormones. I could curse the sky for this minor inconvenience, but I've been testing low-to-no caffeine coffee ...

"During the Union blockade of New Orleans during the American Civil War chicory provided a way to stretch coffee rations." ...

The chicory plant is a perennial used to feed livestock, as a folk remedy, and as a vegetable in human diets. The root is often used as a coffee substitute and can also be converted to alcohol.