| The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop Revised Edition Contributor(s): Luttinger, Nina (Author), Dicum, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595580603 ISBN-13: 9781595580603 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: Revised and updated, a compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running. 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 cafe 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Cooking | Beverages - Coffee & Tea - Cooking | History |
| Dewey: 338.173 |
| LCCN: 2005058026 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.08" W x 7.14" (0.84 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that's "good to the last sentence" (Las Cruces Sun News). One of Library Journal's "Best Business Books" This updated edition of 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 caf 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 the damage that's been done to farmers, laborers, and the environment by mass cultivation--and explores the growing "conscious coffee" market. "Drawing on sources ranging from Moli re and beatnik cartoonists to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the authors describe the beverage's long and colorful rise to ubiquity." --The Economist "Most stimulating." --The Baltimore Sun |