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Title: Coffee Basics : A Quick and Easy Guide by Kevin Knox, Julie Sheldon Huffaker ISBN: 0-471-13617-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great coffee book
Comment: This book gives a good basic understanding of what coffee is all about. I especially like the specificity of information about coffees from different areas in the Regional Character chapter. For example, discussing Costa Rica's two best growing areas and how the coffees differ. I also found the opinions of which coffees are worthy of their price helpful. I read the Perfect Cup first and am glad I did because it was a good coffee overview for me. Coffee Basics was a great second book for me because I was looking for more specific information about coffees of each area. If I hadn't read Perfect Cup first I think the break down of info. on each type of coffee/regional character would have been information overload for me. If you are new or relatively new to the coffee world and are excited about learning more and more about the subtlties and nuiances present in that cup, I highly recommend you read this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Covers a lot in very few words...
Comment: This is not exactly a great book, but then again, not exactly a bad book. It covers much about the industry of coffee and goes over the different regions that produce coffee. It describes what is and how to brew a perfect cup of coffee.
But I get a feeling of being rushed from one tidbit of information to the next. Just while I am almost within grasp of a certain concept or am about to form a picture of what it is trying to say it ends there without further detail. But it does repeat key information more than once throughout the book so you do walk away with greater knowledge than before.
If learning about coffee was compared to eating out, this book is best suited as either an appetizer or a desert. Appetizer to whet and get your brain ready to learn more about coffee, or as a desert, to catch up on and review over learned knowledge.
I guess that's why it is called "Coffee Basics" after all.
"A Perfect Cup" is a better selection in that it contains more information and better elaboration although that book is slightly dated being published in 1994. But coffee has been around way before 1994 so does it really matter?
Rating: 4
Summary: great book for beginners
Comment: Great introduction to coffee - how to brew a great cup, a little bit about the industry, the different growing regions, how to buy good coffee, how to taste coffee, information about how coffee is processed. Not too complicated, easy and interesting reading. I definitely recommend this one if you're looking to learn the basics.
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Title: Start and Run a Coffee Bar by Tom Matzen, Marybeth Harrison, Thomas Matzen ISBN: 1551803542 Publisher: Self Counsel Press Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Perfect Cup: A Coffee Lover's Guide to Buying, Brewing and Tasting by Timothy James Castle ISBN: 0201570483 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: ESPRESSO! Starting and Running Your Own Specialty Coffee Business by Joe Monaghan, Julie Sheldon Huffaker ISBN: 047112138X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop by Gregory Dicum, Nina Luttinger ISBN: 1565845080 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store (Start Your Own Business Series) by Joann Padgett, Prentice-Hall ISBN: 0136032753 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Pub. Date: 05 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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