Currently the world’s most complete and up-to-date general introduction to coffee from seed to cup. It includes:
A lucid, cut-to-the-chase history of coffee, including its recent emergence as a complex and refined specialty beverage.
A friendly but thorough introduction to coffee tasting and evaluation.
Detailed chapters on tree variety and processing methods.
Coffee origins presented in more detail than ever before in a single volume.
An overview of coffee's environmental and socio-economic issues.
An introduction to coffee roasting and profiling.
Brewing principals and step-by-step instructions for most major brewing methods.
170 photographs, 26 maps, 27 tables and infographics.
289 large-format pages. Softcover. Published 2022.
