Coffee
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Coffee

A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry

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eBook - ePub

Coffee

A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry

About this book

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 businessā€”from pickers and roasters to coffee bar owners and consumersā€”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 CuƩllar, 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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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781442214422
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Food Industry

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: The Coffee Business
  6. Chapter 1: Strategies for Improving Coffee Quality
  7. Chapter 2: The Coffee Plant and How It Is Handled
  8. Chapter 3: Digging Deeper: Cultivation and Yields
  9. Chapter 4: Coffee as a Global System
  10. Chapter 5: What Does ā€œOrganicā€ Mean?
  11. Chapter 6: Coffee under Threat
  12. Chapter 7: Culture, Agriculture, and Nature
  13. Chapter 8: A Guatemalan Coffee Farmerā€™s Story
  14. Chapter 9: Pickers
  15. Chapter 10: Coffee Processing
  16. Chapter 11: Women in Coffee in Colombia
  17. Chapter 12: How a Country Girl from Arkansas Became an Importer Leading Other Women in Coffee
  18. Chapter 13: The Role of Nonprofits in Coffee
  19. Chapter 14: Hunger in the Coffee Lands
  20. Chapter 15: The ā€œPriceā€ of Coffee
  21. Chapter 16: Appreciating Quality
  22. Chapter 17: What Is Specialty Coffee?
  23. Chapter 18: Where Does the Money Go in the Coffee Supply Chain?
  24. Part II: The State of the Trade
  25. Chapter 19: The Global Trade in Coffee
  26. Chapter 20: Coffee Certification Programs
  27. Chapter 21: Direct Trade in Coffee
  28. Chapter 22: Fair Trade
  29. Producer Country Profiles
  30. Chapter 23: Hawaii
  31. Chapter 24: India
  32. Chapter 25: Indonesia
  33. Chapter 26: Colombia
  34. Chapter 27: Ethiopia
  35. Chapter 28: Vietnam
  36. Chapter 29: Brazil
  37. Chapter 30: Supporting Coffee Farmersā€™ Response to Market Changes
  38. Consumer Country Profiles
  39. Chapter 31: Introduction to Consumer Countries
  40. Chapter 32: Denmark
  41. Chapter 33: France
  42. Chapter 34: Italy
  43. Chapter 35: United Kingdom
  44. Chapter 36: Russia
  45. Chapter 37: China
  46. Chapter 38: Japan
  47. Chapter 39: Germany
  48. Chapter 40: United States
  49. Part III: The History of Coffee and Its Social Life
  50. Chapter 41: Coffee, a Condensed History
  51. Chapter 42: Coffeehouse Formats through the Centuries
  52. Chapter 43: Why Americans Drink Coffee
  53. Chapter 44: The Ecology of Taste
  54. Chapter 45: The Espresso Menu
  55. Chapter 46: The Competing Languages of Coffee
  56. Part IV: The Qualities of Coffee
  57. Chapter 47: Coffee Quality
  58. Chapter 48: Why Does Coffee Taste That Way?
  59. Chapter 49: Coffee Quality and Assessment
  60. Chapter 50: Distinctive Drinking
  61. Chapter 51: Brewing
  62. Chapter 52: Roasting
  63. Chapter 53: Roasting Culture
  64. Chapter 54: Barista Culture
  65. Chapter 55: Brewing Culture
  66. Coffee and Health
  67. Chapter 56: The Long Debate over Coffee and Health
  68. Chapter 57: Caffeine
  69. Chapter 58: Recent Research on Coffee and Health
  70. Part V: The Future of Coffee
  71. Chapter 59: Coffee Research in Kenya
  72. Chapter 60: Genetically Modified (Transgenic) Coffee
  73. Chapter 61: Mechanization
  74. Chapter 62: A Life in Coffee
  75. Chapter 63: How to Make a Great Cup of Coffee
  76. Acknowledgments
  77. Glossary
  78. About the Editors and Contributors