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Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Fifth Edition

Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Fifth Edition
By Kenneth Davids

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Now in its latest revised edition, Kenneth Davids's comprehensive and entertaining Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, remains an invaluable resource for anyone who truly enjoys a good cup of coffee. It features updated information and definitions, a history of coffee culture, tips on storing and brewing, and other essential advice designed to improve the coffee experience. Coffee lovers everywhere will welcome this lively, complete guide to the fascinating world of America's national beverage.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #129048 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-05-04
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 288 pages

Editorial Reviews

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"An amusing and informative book that is the best available guide." --Corby Kummer, The Atlantic Monthly

"Coffee drinkers will perk up...after reading Kenneth Davids's book." --UPI

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"An amusing and informative book that is the best available guide." --Corby Kummer, The Atlantic Monthly

"Coffee drinkers will perk up...after reading Kenneth Davids's book." --UPI

About the Author
Kenneth Davids is the author of two other books about coffee, Espresso: Ultimate Coffee and Home Coffee Roasting: Romance and Revival. He teaches writing and history at the California College of Arts and Crafts and writes for a number of coffe industry publications and Websites. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Customer Reviews

A CLASSIC IN THE FIELD5
Ken Davids offers a concise, no-nonsense entry into the world of coffee. Of the several dozen coffee books I own (yes I am a junkie), this is the one that I suggest to anyone wanting to really understand all of the basics. Davids has an amiable wit and easy to read style that are very appealing. For more thsn 2 decades earlier versions of this book were a basic training tool for staff in the coffee stores-cafes that we operated (Fantes).

SURPRISE confert to coffee5
I WAS a TEA drinker! until I read this book. It was ordered BY MISTAKE in order to qualify for free shipping (thought it was a cup warmer!). I was so annoyed and was about to send it back but - READ it anyway and once started was so intriqued and hankering for real coffee I could smell the aroma right out of the book.
If an author can do that to an avowed tea drinker, and make you run out and buy the best coffee beans and grind them and pour boiling water over the grounds in a strainer with coffee filter until buying a coffee machine when convinced... and DRINK the stuff that does NOT taste like tea but something AMAZING - wow! and bow wow!

Buy this book - whatever you drink now. Read not only all the directions from buying to brewing to drinking, then the history culture and everything connected to Coffee - you're getting the full scope from a first class story teller. (I think I'll go back and read it again, and brew some coffee!)

Coffee should be experienced...5
This book is very informative and entertaining. I found myself laughing out loud at certain times. The author discusses every aspect of coffee including the best equipment to buy. Being a coffee roaster and brewer of coffee. I found myself agreeing with most of what the author said. I found myself also feeling a wee bit guilty about being lazy and not truly experiencing the best coffee I could by grinding my beans the night before and setting the timer on the coffee pot. I will definitely be changing how I do things in the future. I will definitely be grinding my coffee beans the morning I drink the coffee from now on. Thank you to Mr. Davids. I can't wait to read his next book. Coffee: The Romance and Revival.