Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. ISBN:1-881527-53-0. Photographs by James Scherer. Mylar covered d/j taped on, no external library markings, library label on front endpaper. 288 pages.

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Title

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

Publisher

Shelburne, Vermont: Chapters Publishing Ltd. 1995

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

1881527530

ISBN 13

9781881527534

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Food and Beverages

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Synopsis

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

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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

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