Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third wave" of quality o…
A beautiful world guide to the brown bean. Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full color photographs and concise, informative text. It 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 …