Coffee
eBook - PDF

Coffee

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

About this book

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we who drink it allow ourselves in lieu of something stronger or scarier. Coffee goes to lifestyle, and character, and sensibility: where do we buy it, how do we brew it, how strong can we take it, how often, how hot, how cold? How does coffee remind us, stir us, comfort us? But Coffee is about more than coffee: it's a personal history and a promise to self; in her confrontation with the hours (with time--big picture, little picture), Dinah Lenney faces head-on the challenges of growing older and carrying on. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. Chapter 1: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE TASK
  6. Chapter 2: MY MOTHER IS COMING, MY MOTHER IS COMING
  7. Chapter 3: COFFEE-MILK
  8. Chapter 4: MY EMERGING PALATE
  9. Chapter 5: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COFFEE (TERESA WAS RIGHT)
  10. Chapter 6: COFFEE IN BROOKLYN
  11. Chapter 7: TWENTY-TWO HANDS . . .
  12. Chapter 8: SERIOUS BUSINESS
  13. Chapter 9: SHOULDN’T COFFEE TASTE LIKE COFFEE?
  14. Chapter 10: COFFEE IN PARIS
  15. Chapter 11: EXTENDING THE METAPHOR
  16. Chapter 12: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
  17. Chapter 13: THE POWER OF SUGGESTION
  18. Chapter 14: ONE MORE PROMPT
  19. Chapter 15: AM I BLUE
  20. Chapter 16: A WORD ABOUT TEA
  21. Chapter 17: REUNION
  22. Chapter 18: COFFEE AND CATASTROPHE
  23. Chapter 19: COFFEE IN ECHO PARK
  24. Chapter 20: COFFEE AND THE JEWS
  25. Chapter 21: THE WIDOW
  26. Chapter 22: ALTERED STATES
  27. EPILOGUE
  28. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  29. MY COFFEE BOOK FORT (FURTHER READING)
  30. INDEX