The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying

Corby Kummer; Evangelia Philippidis

ISBN 10: 1881527530 / ISBN 13: 9781881527534

Published by Chapters Pub Ltd, 1995

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1881527530I4N01

Synopsis:

Discusses the growing, roasting, grinding, and brewing of coffee, and provides recipes for coffee-compatible cookies and cakes

Reviews: With coffee bars springing up on every urban corner, this engrossing guide couldn't arrive at a better moment. Kummer writes on food for the Atlantic very well, thanks, because he injects his own physical experience with his subjects into the exposition. Here, he takes us through the coffee bean's progress from tree to tummy, eyewitness-style. He tells us what it's like to pick coffee because he went and picked it, what it's like to cup coffee (the method by which roasted beans are qualitatively sorted) because he cupped with the pros, what it's like roasting coffee because he tried it at home as well as scrutinized it being done as a business, etc. He analyzes and advises on grinding and brewing methods; he appreciates espresso and its appurtenances; he describes the coffees of different growing countries; he discusses caffeine and its health effects; and then, he wraps the book up with coffee-complementary dessert recipes and a resource section. Kummer's Baedeker of the exquisitely bitter brew is, as the old slogan says, good to the last drop. Ray Olson

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to ...
Publisher: Chapters Pub Ltd
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket