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A cup of aloha : the Kona coffee epic / Gerald Kinro.
LIBRA HD9199.U5 K6645 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinro, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coffee industry--Hawaii--Kona (Hawaii Island)--History.
- Coffee industry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 149 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawai'i -- from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824826787
- OCLC:
- 51722753
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