The World Atlas of Coffee
From Beans to Brewing — Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed
by James Hoffmann · first published 2014
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This book is a beautiful world guide to the brown bean. Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee-growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photographs and concise, informative text. It shows the origins of coffee -- where it is grown, the people who grow it; and the cultures in which coffee is a way of life -- and the world of consumption -- processing, grades, the consumer and the modern culture of coffee. Plants of the genus Coffea are cultivated in more than 70 countries but primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. For some cou
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James Hoffmann is a great resource for anything coffee and was going to recommend him as well. I think this, from his book, The World Atlas of Coffee, is very telling: > "Making espresso is both incredibly frustrating and also very rewarding. I must offer a word of caution here: don't invest in an espresso machine unless you want a new hobby. The…
on “How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down” ↗…that smaller is better. He argues that we should reject the “aggrandizement of states” and pursue “the breakdown of nations.” A fascinating read, and once I saw the issue with size I can’t unsee it. World Atlas of Coffee by James Hoffman: A fun book on the history of coffee around the world, the tree, the bean, the cup, everything. A good book for coffee lovers. James also has a great YouTube channel all about coffee.
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