A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic - Softcover

Kinro, Gerald Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824826787 ISBN 13: 9780824826789

Publisher: Latitude 20, 2003

Synopsis

Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawaii--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald Kinro was born and raised on a coffee farm in Kahalu'u, Kona. A pesticide specialist with the Hawai'i State Department of Agriculture, he has authored more than a hundred articles on agriculture and other subjects in local, national, and international publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Latitude 20
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0824826787
• ISBN 13: 9780824826789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168