All about Coffee (Second Edition)

2011 Reprint of the second edition (1935). Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated.

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Tasting Coffee: Coffee Cupping Techniques to Unleash the Bean! (I Know Coffee)

You’ve likely heard the coffee professionals in your local coffee shop or roaster talking about the different exciting flavor notes their beans produce—and have then found yourself disappointed when you brew the beans at home and just taste coffee.

Just like with tasting wine, developing your palate to pick out the subtle notes present in high-quality coffee beans can take time and practice, but will yield delicious dividends.

This book gives you a crash course in tasting coffee. It includes information on what notes you can often expect from different growing regions and roast levels, advice on how to train your palate, information on the tasting wheels used by professionals, and tips about how professional tasters brew their coffee to best taste the layers of flavors.

Some coffees are quite complex, with aromas and flavors that can be both subtle and fleeting. This book will help you learn how to taste it like a barista.

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Coffee Culture

"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world.

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Coffee: A Connoisseur's Companion

With this volume, Glenfiddich award-winning cookery writer Claudia Roden explores the history of the coffee bean. Her book also offers guidance on choosing and preparing coffee, and gives a selection of desserts to complement coffee. Readmore

Coffee 2019 Deluxe Wall Calendar

You can practically smell the coffee brewing with Dan DiPaolo's Coffee 2019 Calendar.

Java lovers will get a kick out of each monthly spread featuring mellow-tinged art and words celebrating this essential elixir. Besides providing a mood-lifting buzz, the calendar is packaged in a matching envelope, printed on linen-textured paper, and reinforced with a brass grommet. It also includes a handy September-December 2018 spread and clean and roomy 2019 monthly grids

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The Coffeeist Manifesto

Make Coffee and Espresso at home! Make sure you're not getting ripped off at your local coffee shop! Revised and Expanded Second Edition for 2016 ~50% Additional Content This 'coffee for beginners' book will take you from zombie to full on coffee geek by teaching you everything from the basics of coffee brewing to coffee roasting at home. I've always loved coffee and wanted to know more about it, but I hated all the pretense and mystique that surrounded it. Most of all, I hated walking into a coffee shop and feeling like I had to learn a new language just to order my black coffee. Still... Coffee is more than just a caffeine delivery system! This book sets the record straight and separates fact from fiction. Description from 1st Edition I, too, was a coffee zombie, walking around calling myself a coffee lover. For years I stumbled around in a daze drinking stale, bitter coffee and grumbling “beans… beans…”. Thank Goodness I finally woke up to the world of coffee. By Immersing myself in the coffee world via reading every book I could find, visiting trade fairs, every high-end cafe I could find, and barista competitions, I realized that, while there is a huge amount of information out there free on the Internet and in artisan coffee shops, there was no single resource that connects all the dots and spells it all out for confused novice coffee drinkers. Until now. Fact: Making a great cup of coffee requires focus and commitment. This means that to make a billion dollar for-profit coffee franchise, you MUST find ways to cut corners and short change your customers. Fact: There are some GREAT coffee shops out there that care about coffee and customers and are worth every penny they charge, but they can be hard to identify, making it easy to just settle for familiar chain coffee. Fact: Making very good coffee is NOT THAT HARD. With a minimal investment in time and education you can make the best cup of coffee you’ve ever had in your life in the comfort of your own home. This book shows exactly why billion dollar for-profit coffee chains are inherently unable to produce coffee of the quality you can make in the kitchen. The Coffeeist Manifesto is half self-defense manual and half how-to instructional. By the end of it, any coffee beginner will have a foundational understanding of the coffee industry and know how to identify the good coffee shops from the bad ones. But most importantly, you’ll know how to beat ....Readmore.

The Art & Craft of Coffee Cocktails

First take a journey into the history and craft of coffee, the world's most popular beverage, from crop to cup. Next follow his expert mixing tips aimed at everyone from keen beginners to bartenders working in the world’s best bars.

More than 80 recipes follow, covering all styles of cocktails from stirred and shaken through to blended and blazed. Learn how to perfect simple classics such as Espresso Martini and Irish coffee or try your hand at technical modern marvels Golden Velvet and Death By Caffeine. With The Art and Craft of Coffee Cocktails in hand your daily grind will never be the same!

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