Coffee : a comprehensive guide to the bean, the beverage, and the industry / edited by Robert W. Thurston, Jonathan Morris, and Shawn Steiman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thurston, Robert W.

Morris, Jonathan, 1961-

Steiman, Shawn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry.

Coffee.

Physical Description:

xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]

Summary:

This definitive guide to coffee explores the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts consider coffee's history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and societal issues surrounding it today. They describe the art and science of roasting, cupping (tasting), and making good coffee.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. The coffee business

1. Strategies for improving coffee quality / Price Peterson

2. The coffee plant and how it is handled / Shawn Steiman

3. Digging deeper: cultivation and yields / H.C. "Skip" Bittenbender

4. Coffee as a global system / Peter S. Baker

5. What does "organic" mean? / Robert W. Thurston

6. Coffee under threat: the growing problem of the coffee berry borer / Juliana Jaramillo

7. Culture, agriculture, and nature: shade coffee farms and biodiversity / Robert Rice

8. A Guatemalan coffee farmer's story: a challenging life in a beautiful, harsh land / Carlos Saenz

9. Pickers / Robert W. Thurston

10. Coffee processing: an artisan's perspective / Joan Obra

11. Women in coffee in Colombia / Olga Cuellar

12. How a country girl from Arkansas became an importer leading other women in coffee / Phyllis Johnson

13. The role of nonprofits in coffee / August Burns

14. Hunger in the coffee lands / Rick Peyser

15. The "price" of coffee: how the coffee commodity market works / Robert W. Thurston

16. Appreciating quality: the route to upward mobility for coffee farmers / George Howell

17. What is specialty coffee? / Shawn Steiman

18. Where does the money go in the coffee supply chain? / Robert W. Thurston

Part II. The state of the trade

19. The global trade in coffee: an overview / Robert W. Thurston

20. Coffee certification programs / Robert W. Thurston

21. Direct trade in coffee / Geoff Watts

22. Fair trade: still a big plus for farmers and workers around the world / Paul Rice

Producer country profiles

23. Hawaii / Shawn Steiman

24. India / Sunalini Menon

25. Indonesia / Jati Misnawi

26. Colombia / Luis Alberto Cuéllar

27. Ethiopia / Willem Boot

28. Vietnam / Robert W. Thurston

29. Brazil / Carlos H.J. Brando

30. Supporting coffee farmers' response to market changes / Jeremy Haggar

Consumer country profiles

31. Introduction to consumer countries / Jonathan Morris

32. Denmark / Camilla C. Valeur

33. France / Jonathan Wesley Bell

34. Italy / Vincenzo Sandalj

35. United Kingdom / Clare Benfield

36. Russia / Robert W. Thurston

37. Ukraine / Sergii Reminny with Jonathan Morris

38. Japan / Tatsushi Ueshima

39. Germany / Britta Zeitemann

40. United States / Robert W. Thurston

Part III. The history of coffee and its social life

41. Coffee, a condensed history / Jonathan Morris with material from Robert W. Thurston

42. Coffeehouse formats through the centuries: third places or public spaces? / Jonathan Morris

43. Why Americans drink coffee: the Boston Tea Party or Brazilian slavery? / Steven Topik and Michelle Craig McDonald

44. The ecology of taste: robusta coffee and the limits of the specialty revolution / Stuart McCook

45. The espresso menu: an international history / Jonathan Morris

46. The competing languages of coffee: signs, narratives, and symbols of American specialty coffee / Kenneth Davids

Part IV. The qualities of coffee

47. Coffee quality / Geoff Watts

48. Why does coffee taste that way?: notes from the field / Shawn Steiman

49. Coffee quality and assessment / Shawn Steiman

50. Distinctive drinking: specialty coffee and class in the United States / Jonathan D. Baker

51. Brewing: dissolving the puzzle / Andrew Hetzel

52. Roasting: developing flavor in the bean / Colin Smith

53. Roasting culture / Connie Blumhardt and Jim Fadden

54. Barista culture / Sarah Allen

55. Brewing culture / Alf Kramer

Coffee and health

56. The long debate over coffee and health / Robert W. Thurston

57. Caffeine: how much is in your cup, and how much is bad for you? / Robert W. Thurston

58. Recent research on coffee and health / Lawrence W. Jones

Part V. The future of coffee

59. Coffee research in Kenya: current status and future perspectives / Elijah K. Gichuru

60. Genetically modified (transgenic) coffee / Robert W. Thurston

61. Mechanization / Robert W. Thurston

62. A life in coffee / Ted Lingle

63. How to make a great cup of coffee / Robert W. Thurston with Shawn Steiman and Jonathan Morris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442214408

1442214406

OCLC:

794040940