Coffee
Published on 6. September 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-84202-125-5 (ISBN)
Description
Divided into 5 sections which: * Set the scene - with facts, figures and quotations. * Inform - trace the history of coffee up to today. * Delight the eye - a blast of colour - a selection of full page images of people around the world drinking coffee. * Explain - a practical section - how it is made, who drinks the most, the world market, coffee-making machines. * Expand - additional information and finding out more.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Illustrations
90 colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 144 mm
Weight
238 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84202-125-5 (9781842021255)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Philippe Boe is a writer who specialises in gastronomy and is also a food critic.
Content
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.