Coffee: A Guide to Buying Brewing and Enjoying from Kenneth Davids is a complete guide for this household favorite. This is not a cookbook, but instead a how-to for the art of coffee making and serving. There is a chapter at the end with coffee drink recipes.
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Format: Softcover, 254 pages.
Copyright: 1991
Publisher: Cole Group
Author: Kenneth Davids
Description: Kenneth Davids' revised, updated, and expanded bestseller pays homage to America's national beverage. Beginning with coffee lore and a history of the famous bean, this in-depth guide to the international world of coffee details:
- The art of coffee tasting
- Choosing coffee beans
- Roasters and the roasting process
- Grinders and grinding methods
- Brewing styles, including a special section on espresso
- Coffee serving traditions
There is also a chapter of drink recipes, a comprehensive glossary, and a mail-order section for ordering coffee beans, brewing apparatus, and related products.
Coffee gives the inside scoop on decaffeination processes, consumer health issues, and organically grown, flavored whole-bean, and estate -- grown coffees. There's even a section on coffee houses, espresso bars, and other Java joints. Coffee lovers everywhere will welcome this lively, complete guide to the fascinating world of Coffea Arabica.
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Condition: Good condition.