Uncommon grounds
Subtitle: the history of coffee and how it transformed our world
By: Mark Pendergrast.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780465036318
Subjects: Coffee -- History; Coffee industry -- History
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The Oriflama harvest; title: Introduction : Puddle water or panacea?; title: Part 1 : Seeds of conquest.; title: Coffee colonizes the world; title: The coffee kingdoms; title: The American drink; title: The great coffee wars of the Gilded Age; title: Hermann Sielcken and the Brazilian valorization; title: The drug drink; title: Part 2 : Canning the buzz.; title: Growing pains; title: Making the world safe for coffee; title: Selling an image in the Jazz Age; title: Burning beans, starving campesinos; title: Showboating the Depression; title: Cuppa Joe; title: Part 3 : Bitter brews.; title: Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification; title: Robusta triumphant; title: Part 4 : Romancing the bean.; title: A scattered band of fanatics; title: The black frost; title: The specialty revolution; title: The Starbucks experience; title: Final grounds; title: Appendix : How to brew the perfect cup