Facts & figures There are 73 different kinds of coffee bush, of which just 2 are cultivated. The history of coffee Its origins in Ethiopia, Arabia, the Americans and the coffee houses of Europe, plantations and slavery, 1950s coffee bars... A blast of colour Full page images of coffee being sipped all over the world, from a transport caf' in the UK, to the Yemen and the Ukraine. Like a coffee? The bush, the harvest, how it is made, different methods, who drinks the most, the different machines (and the noises they make), is it bad for you? Recipes... A little more The subtleties of taste and smell, reading the coffee dregs (Mystic Meg style), coffee and third world poverty - how we can help, useful addresses, glossary.
