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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from the Crop to the Last Dropby Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A freshly updated edition of the best introduction to one of the world's most popular products, The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee in the twenty-first. The book explores the process of cultivation, harvesting, and roasting from bean to cup; surveys the social history of café society from the first coffeehouses in Constantinople to beatnik havens in Berkeley and Greenwich Village; and tells the dramatic tale of high-stakes international trade and speculation for a product that can make or break entire national economies. It also examines the industry’s major players, revealing how they have systematically reduced the quality of the bean and turned a much-loved product into a commodity and lifestyle accoutrement, ruining the lives of millions of farmers around the world in the process.
Finally, The Coffee Book, hailed as a Best Business Book by Library Journal when it was first published, considers the exploitation of labor and damage to the environment that mass cultivation causes, and explores the growing "conscious coffee" market and Fair Trade movement. Book News Annotation:An overview of the production, consumption, and cultural popularity
of coffee, providing an historical overview of the drink, tracing its
farming and processing, examining the international trade in coffee,
and discussing marketing and the recent growth in popularity of
specialty coffees. The final chapter discusses the even more recent
consumer movement against the coffee trade's exploitive impact on
both the environment and labor in developing nations.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorAuthor of Window Seat, Gregory Dicum has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Salon, Travel + Leisure, New York, and Mother Jones. He is a contributing editor at Other magazine and writes a biweekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Nina Luttinger has worked as a private coffee and tea industry consultant and freelance writer and at TransFair USA. They live in San Francisco. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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