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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast.

by Pendergrast, Mark.

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Basic Books, 2019.

338.17373 P397u

Coffee -- History.

Coffee drinking -- History.

Coffee industry -- History.

9781541699380 (pbk.)

xxvii, 424 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-397) and index.

Prologue: Oriflama harvest -- Introduction: Puddle water or panacea? -- Introduction to the second edition -- Part 1: Seeds Of Conquest -- 1: Coffee colonizes the world -- 2: Coffee kingdoms -- 3: American drink -- 4: Great coffee wars of the Gilded Age -- 5: Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian valorization -- 6: Drug drink -- Part 2: Canning The Buzz -- 7: Growing pains -- 8: Making the world safe for coffee -- 9: Selling an image in the Jazz Age -- 10: Burning beans, starving campesinos -- 11: Showboating the Depression -- 12: Cuppa joe -- Part 3: Bitter Brews -- 13: Coffee witch hunts and instant nongratification -- 14: Robusta triumphant -- Part 4: Romancing The Bean -- 15: Scattered band of fanatics -- 16: Black frost -- 17: Specialty revolution -- 18: Starbucks experience -- 19: Final grounds.

Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.

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