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The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

Nina Luttinger and Gregory Dicum
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781595580603
Publisher: New Press
Release Date: 2005-05-16
ITEM OVERVIEW
What do you really know about our favorite drug? Favorite like 400 million cups per day consumed in the US alone? Here, in a quick 200 pages, is enough to wow the entire gang at your local java tank. The history of the bean, the creation of plantations, the current politics and economics of the brew, the rise of the gourmet bean, and the chain coffee emporia and conscious coffee. And of course, exactly how caffeine works its wonders on your frying brain. Now in a new, freshly updated edition.