A well-known roaster explains how to choose, brew, and enjoy artisan coffees at home, along with recipes for drinks and pastries. Covers choosing and roasting beans at home using standard kitchen tools, brewing coffee and making espresso-based drinks.

Coffee offers a multidimensional examination of a deceptively everyday but extremely complex commodity that remains at the center of many millions of lives. Tracing coffee's journey from field to cup, this handbook to one of the world's favorite beverages is a helpful guide for professionals, coffee lovers, and students alike.

Presents a history of coffee, describing its origins in fifteenth-century East Africa, its rise as an imperial consumer product, and the current economic plight of today's coffee-producing countries.

Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses in the medieval Near East.

This book explores coffee as a major commodity with a dramatic history that shapes the lives of millions of people. It presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together, from the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands.

When the first coffeehouse opened in London in 1652, customers were bewildered by this strange new drink from Turkey--hot, bitter, and black as soot. But those who tried coffee were soon won over, and more coffee-houses opened. For a hundred years the coffeehouse occupied the center of urban life, creating a distinctive social culture, playing a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific, and literary change in the 18th century,.

Following the coffee plant from its origins in East Africa to its current role as a global product that influences millions of lives though sustainable development, economics, and consumer desire, this book combines the research and insights of the scientific community and expertise of crafts people, to bring readers into a sustained and inclusive conversation. Provides an overview of the coffee value chain and presents the key challenges of future coffee production and potential solutions.

Written by a coffee enthusiast for coffee enthusiasts, this comprehensive guide to improving your brew at home provides all the information readers need to discover what they like in a cup of specialty coffee--and how to replicate the perfect cup day after day.

Casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Most importantly, it shows that Starbucks speaks to a deeply felt American need for predictability and class standing, community and authenticity, revealing that Starbucks' appeal lies not in the product it sells but in the easily consumed identity it offers.

By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just and environmentally sound practices. This book uses ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.

This ethnography tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world.

This accessible report, with illustrations and many visual aids, outlines the extent of the crisis in the coffee market and the reasons behind it, and presents a strategy for action.

This book provides an account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the inventors were also transformed by their own invention.

In this book, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, and mescaline--and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief.

Tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Through the window of coffee production, trade, and consumption the book explores broad historical themes: the clash and blending of cultures, slavery, the rise of brand marketing, global inequities, fair trade, revolutions, health scares, environmental issues, and the rediscovery of quality.

Shows the origins of coffee -- where it is grown, the people who grow it; and the cultures in which coffee is a way of life -- and the world of consumption -- processing, grades, the consumer and the modern culture of coffee. Organized by continent and then further by country or region, the book includes information on the history of coffee generally and regionally, the role of colonialism, maps of growing regions, charts explaining differences in growing regions within a country, the politics of coffee and the fair trade, organic and shade-grown phenomena.

This natural, cultural, and artistic history of coffee tells us more about this favorite beverage by looking at how caffeine was discovered, its early uses, and its unexpected role in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning and love.