Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee’s history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for example, the impact of globalization; the many definitions of organic, direct trade, and fair trade; the health of female farmers; the relationships among shade, birds, and coffee; roasting as an art and a science; and where profits are made in the commodity chain. Drawing on interviews and the lives of people working in the business—from pickers and roasters to coffee bar owners and consumers—this book brings a compelling human side to the story. The authors avoid romanticizing or demonizing any group in the business. They consider basic but widely misunderstood issues such as who adds value to the bean, the constraints of peasant life, and the impact of climate change. Moving beyond simple answers, they represent various participants in the supply chain and a range of opinions about problems and suggested solutions in the industry. Coffee offers a multidimensional examination of a deceptively everyday but extremely complex commodity that remains at the center of many millions of lives. Tracing coffee’s journey from field to cup, this handbook to one of the world’s favorite beverages is an essential guide for professionals, coffee lovers, and students alike.Contributions by: Sarah Allen, Jonathan D. Baker, Peter S. Baker, Jonathan Wesley Bell, Clare Benfield, H. C. "Skip" Bittenbender, Connie Blumhardt, Willem Boot, Carlos H. J. Brando, August Burns, Luis Alberto Cuéllar, Olga Cuellar, Kenneth Davids, Jim Fadden, Elijah K. Gichuru, Jeremy Haggar, Andrew Hetzel, George Howell, Juliana Jaramillo, Phyllis Johnson, Lawrence W. Jones, Alf Kramer, Ted Lingle, Stuart McCook, Michelle Craig McDonald, Sunalini Menon, Jonathan Morris, Joan Obra, Price Peterson, Rick Peyser, Sergii Reminny, Paul Rice, Robert Rice, Carlos Saenz, Vincenzo Sandalj, Jinap Selamat, Colin Smith, Shawn Steiman, Robert W. Thurston, Steven Topik, Tatsushi Ueshima, Camilla C. Valeur, Geoff Watts, and Britta Zeitemann

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-08
Mått177 x 253 x 23 mm
Vikt735 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor422
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442214415

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IntroductionRobert W. ThurstonPart I: The Coffee Business1 Strategies for Improving Coffee Quality Price Peterson2 The Coffee Plant and How It Is Handled Shawn Steiman3 Digging Deeper: Cultivation and Yields H. C. "Skip" Bittenbender4 Coffee as a Global System Peter S. Baker5 What Does “Organic” Mean? Robert W. Thurston6 Coffee under Threat: The Growing Problem of the Coffee Berry Borer Juliana Jaramillo7 Culture, Agriculture, and Nature: Shade Coffee Farms and Biodiversity Robert Rice8 A Guatemalan Coffee Farmer’s Story: A Challenging Life in a Beautiful, Harsh LandCarlos Saenz9 PickersRobert W. Thurston10 Coffee Processing: An Artisan's PerspectiveJoan Obra11 Women in Coffee in ColombiaOlga Cuellar12 How a Country Girl from Arkansas Became an Importer Leading Other Women in CoffeePhyllis Johnson13 The Role of Nonprofits in Coffee August Burns14 Hunger in the Coffee Lands Rick Peyser15 The “Price” of Coffee: How the Coffee Commodity Market WorksRobert W. Thurston16 Appreciating Quality: The Route to Upward Mobility for Coffee Farmers George Howell17 What is Specialty Coffee?Shawn Steiman18 Where Does the Money Go in the Coffee Supply Chain?Robert W. ThurstonPart II: The State of the Trade19 The Global Trade in Coffee: An OverviewRobert W. Thurston20 Coffee Certification ProgramsRobert W. Thurston21 Direct Trade in CoffeeGeoff Watts22 Fair Trade: Still a Big Plus for Farmers and Workers around the WorldPaul RiceProducer Country Profiles23 Hawaii Shawn Steiman24 India Sunalini Menon25 Indonesia Jinap Selamat26 Colombia Luis Alberto Cuéllar27 Ethiopia Willem Boot28 VietnamRobert W. Thurston29 Brazil Carlos H. J. Brando30 Supporting Coffee Farmers’ Response to Market ChangesJeremy HaggarConsumer Country Profiles31 Introduction to Consumer CountriesJonathan Morris32 Denmark Camilla C. Valeur33 France Jonathan Wesley Bell34 Italy Vincenzo Sandalj35 United KingdomClare Benfield36 Russia Robert W. Thurston37 Ukraine Sergii Reminny with Jonathan Morris38 Japan Tatsushi Ueshima39 Germany Britta Zeitemann40 United StatesRobert W. Thurston Part III: The History of Coffee and Its Social Life41 Coffee, a Condensed History Jonathan Morris with material from Robert W. Thurston42 Coffee House Formats through the Centuries: Third Places or Public Spaces? Jonathan Morris43 Why Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery? Steven Topik and Michelle Craig McDonald44 The Ecology of Taste: Robusta Coffee and the Limits of the Specialty Revolution Stuart McCook45 The Espresso Menu: A History Jonathan Morris46 The Competing Languages of Coffee: Signs, Narratives, and Symbols of American Specialty Coffee Kenneth DavidsPart IV: The Qualities of Coffee47 Coffee QualityGeoff Watts48 Why Does Coffee Taste That Way? Notes from the Field Shawn Steiman49 Coffee Quality and AssessmentShawn Steiman50 Distinctive Drinking: Specialty Coffee and Class in the United StatesJonathan D. Baker51 Brewing: Dissolving the Puzzle Andrew Hetzel52 Roasting: Developing Flavor in the Bean Colin Smith53 Roasting Culture Connie Blumhardt and Jim Fadden54 Barista Culture Sarah Allen55 Brewing Culture Alf KramerCoffee and Health56 The Long Debate over Coffee and Health Robert W. Thurston57 Caffeine: How Much Is in Your Cup, and How Much Is Bad for You?Robert W. Thurston58 Recent Research on Coffee and HealthLawrence W. JonesPart V: The Future of Coffee59 Coffee Research in Kenya: Current Status and Future Perspectives Elijah K. Gichuru60 Genetically Modified (Transgenic) CoffeeRobert W. Thurston61 Mechanization Robert W. Thurston62 A Life in CoffeeTed Lingle63 How to Make a Great Cup of Coffee Robert W. Thurston with Shawn Steiman and Jonathan MorrisGlossary

In light of today's caffeine-obsessed culture, this new work focusing on coffee production and consumption is highly interesting and informative. The book is composed of 63 relatively short chapters gathered into five overall sections, beginning with 'The Coffee Business' and 'The State of Trade.' The trade section includes chapters on each of the world's seven major coffee-growing areas and nine of the biggest coffee-consuming countries. The third section focuses on coffee's history and coffee (and coffeehouse) culture, followed by a section on coffee qualities, including health aspects. The book concludes with an exploration of coffee's future. This is not a compendium of academic papers, as are so many edited collections these days. Chapters, contributed by experts in their respective fields, are written in an engaging, accessible style. They are well researched and often include an extensive notes section at the end. Black-and-white photos, maps, graphs, and other illustrations are interspersed, depending on the topic. A glossary and detailed index round out the text. Highly recommended. All public and academic library collections.