false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182448243m/1276912.jpg 1276912 3 <B>Revised and updated, a compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running.</B><BR><BR>A freshly updated edition of the best introduction to one of the world's most popular products, <I>The Coffee Book</I> is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee in the twenty-first. The book explores the process of cultivation, harvesting, and roasting from bean to cup; surveys the social history of café society from the first coffeehouses in Constantinople to beatnik havens in Berkeley and Greenwich Village; and tells the dramatic tale of high-stakes international trade and speculation for a product that can make or break entire national economies. It also examines the industry's major players, revealing how they have systematically reduced the quality of the bean and turned a much-loved product into a commodity and lifestyle accoutrement, ruining the lives of millions of farmers around the world in the process.<BR><BR>Finally, <I>The Coffee Book</I>, hailed as a Best Business Book by <I>Library Journal</I> when it was first published, considers the exploitation of labor and damage to the environment that mass cultivation causes, and explores the growing "conscious coffee" market and Fair Trade movement. 1265888 1999 Coffee Book : An Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last drop total:13|5:2|4:6|3:4|2:1|1:0| 13 48 28 1 2 0 false false Sat May 17 10:01:57 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 10:02:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 10:37:52 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 10:37:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 17:17:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 17:17:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 22 10:08:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 11:54:25 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 10:08:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 16 06:20:20 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 06:49:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 14:03:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:04:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 31 10:59:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 10:59:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 27 01:39:07 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 01:39:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 16 17:34:53 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 17:35:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 07:51:57 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:51:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 21 13:22:47 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 08:46:09 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 13:22:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 24 01:46:05 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 01:46:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 23 09:03:11 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 07:37:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 16:49:14 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:49:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 01:52:39 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 01:52:39 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 21:11:49 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 21:11:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 17 16:28:53 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:28:53 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 16 09:44:51 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 09:44:51 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 08:15:34 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 08:15:34 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 29 16:17:37 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 16:17:37 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1276912