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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast.

By: Pendergrast, Mark.
Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, c1999Description: xix, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0465054676 (pbk.); 0465036317 (cloth).Subject(s): Coffee -- History | Coffee industry -- HistoryDDC classification: 641.3373
Contents:
Part 1: Seeds of conquest : 1. Coffee colonizes the world - 2. The coffee kingdoms - 3. The American drink - 4. The great coffee wars of the gilded age - 5. Hermann sielcken and Brazilian valorization - 6. The drug drink -- Part 2: Canning the buzz - 7. Growing pains - 8. Making the world safe for coffee - 9. Selling an image in the jazz age - 10. Burning beans, starving campesinos -11. Showboating the depression - 12. Cuppa joe -- Part 3: Bitter brews - 13. Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification - 14. Robusta triumphant -- Part 4: Romancing the bean - 15. A scattered band of fanatics - 16. The black frost - 17. The specialty revolution - 18. The starbucks experience - 19. Final grounds -- Appendix: How to brew the perfect cup.
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Part 1: Seeds of conquest : 1. Coffee colonizes the world - 2. The coffee kingdoms - 3. The American drink - 4. The great coffee wars of the gilded age - 5. Hermann sielcken and Brazilian valorization - 6. The drug drink -- Part 2: Canning the buzz - 7. Growing pains - 8. Making the world safe for coffee - 9. Selling an image in the jazz age - 10. Burning beans, starving campesinos -11. Showboating the depression - 12. Cuppa joe -- Part 3: Bitter brews - 13. Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification - 14. Robusta triumphant -- Part 4: Romancing the bean - 15. A scattered band of fanatics - 16. The black frost - 17. The specialty revolution - 18. The starbucks experience - 19. Final grounds -- Appendix: How to brew the perfect cup.