21st Century Coffee: A Guide

Currently the world’s most complete and up-to-date general introduction to coffee from seed to cup. It includes: A lucid, cut-to-the-chase history of coffee, including its recent emergence as a complex and refined specialty beverage. A friendly but thorough introduction to coffee tasting and evaluation. Detailed chapters on tree variety and processing methods. Coffee origins presented in more detail than ever before in a single volume. An overview of coffee's environmental and socio-economic issues. An introduction to coffee roasting and profiling. Brewing principals and step-by-step instructions for most major brewing methods. 170 photographs, 26 maps, 27 tables and infographics. 289 large-format pages. Softcover. Published 2022.