The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop (Bazaar Book)
The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop (Bazaar Book)
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A freshly up to date edition of the best introduction to one particular of the world’s most popular merchandise, The Coffee Guide is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its initial use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee in the twenty-1st. The book explores the procedure of cultivation, harvesting, and roasting from bean to cup surveys the social historical past 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 item that can make or break complete national economies. It also examines the industry’s major players, revealing how they have systematically decreased the high quality of the bean and turned a considerably-loved solution into a commodity and life style accoutrement, ruining the lives of millions of farmers about the globe in the approach.Ultimately, The Coffee Guide, hailed as a Ideal Company Guide by Library Journal when it was 1st published, considers the exploitation of labor and injury to the surroundings that mass cultivation causes, and explores the developing \"aware coffee\" industry and Fair Trade movement.
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