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Uncommon Grounds The History Of Coffee And How It Transformed Our World
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Product Description "Pendergrast has served in a rich blend of anecdote, character study, market analysis and social history … Everything you need to know to know about coffee is here. New York Times, the leading global business and social history of coffee, which describes how coffee has dominated and shaped the economic, political and social structures of the figures by country. Pendergrast carefully researched and lively anecdotes, history provides a window through which BC. . More>>
Uncommon Grounds The History Of Coffee And How It Transformed Our World
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
The title of this book promises much more than what it offers – is above all a jumble of information on prices and policies, and almost nothing about the "transformation of our world."
Rating: 1 / 5
October 6th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Although critically acclaimed, the book was not exactly what I was looking for. There is the history of the U.S. coffee companies are the mass market in excruciating detail, but as a coffee afficianado, I know more about coffee and how to prepare well, as the author. If you are interested in the history of Folgers down and dirty, full of nuts, of Hills Brothers, this is your book. If you are seriously interested in the fine coffee, and have achieved a level of appreciation from them, this book will quickly get bored. I do not understand how Folgers, Hills or my brothers or whatever drinkers would be sufficient interest in the coffee per se (as they drink cheap wine), to spend time and money on this book. The true coffee drinker, there are people who strive to maintain or make great coffee, it will be boring and unbearable this tretise Search for page 150 or so.
Rating: 3 / 5
October 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
"Uncommon Grounds" is a fascinating SEE A widespread but poorly understood part of everyday life. The author presents the history, politics, PESONALITIES, and even chemistry of our beloved daily drink, with the depth of a scholar and writer style DETECTIVE Pulido. Even people bored with facts and figures you will find that when presented by a craftsman, as Mr. Pendergrast, contribute to the drama of a story full of strange characters to also be true, but SON. The author also shows a depth of compassion and vision on the human level, for workers COFFEE IN THE DAY current, which reflects the true character ADDITIONAL SKILL.
Rating: 4 / 5
October 7th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Rest next to your mouse or the keyboard – at a safe distance! – Your cup of tea aroma steam bath. The coffee in the morning, either at home or at work, is the "kick-start" for many days a person. For some, it has a special flavor, ready to taste, but often with cow-juice sweeteners or is real or not mixed. Otherwise, all that hot, and caffeine-laced enough. But almost none of us wonder how they came to drink, drink, why and why the Americans stick to coffee and tea. Mark Pendergrast said, and asked for a little more and in many places. The result is this fascinating book about the history of our favorite beverage. It is very important if we are to write songs. Opening times on the myth of Ethiopian goat herder who learn to want to disseminate why their dance positions in the hills Pendergrast traces of coffee, in another place quickly. Cafes, from days gone by quickly became popular as meeting places. News and gossip over cups of steaming Swopper. The customers are not only dance not like the goats, but there must be something more than rest on. The Coffee House, banned as of the vices, or to see even worse, revolt was by different rulers uncertain. Charles II of England, for fear that his government could follow the path of his father, tried to close it. He was right, as if the cries of other protest rebellion have generated. The king took the ban. While coffee houses remained at the scene, and some institutions were delightfully decorated, was the domestic market that expands the role of coffee. Pendergrast tracks that move with a colorful history of the economic growth of coffee in the Western Hemisphere. As the tea is consumed in Britain is a form of support to the East India Company, the coffee as part of North America increased patriotism. The United States took the child immediately to coffee, the habit, facilitated by the proximity of the nations in growth. The author notes that, once struck the coffee roots in Brazil, the nation became the backbone of the coffee industry. State of coffee as a cash crop, however, made it vulnerable to many forces – and no less. Grown in different heights, but rarely at the level of stable environment, coffee is subject to storms and frost. Like vines, coffee is more susceptible to virus infection. Prices rise and fall in a very volatile market. Pendergrast notes the beginning of the 20th Century, the U.S. tilt cheap coffee led the government to make the first attempts to influence the Brazilian economy. It's easy, were the producers in Brazil, and Wholesaler entitled "fixing" prices, the storage of millions of bags in the shops, if that was his real intention stablilisation prices. Pendergrast traces the development of this industry with a fine touch for details. Price changes, marketing techniques, changes in taste and the growth of small shops, merchants, national chains are well covered. Although there are many names and changes of control in several places, the author keeps us with him when he reported the interactions. There's little technology to divert or delay the reader – it keeps the coffee chemistry hidden in a final chapter. To reach this point, but the reader through the establishment and expansion of names such as Folger, Hills Brothers and A & P. Not everything is guided pleasant to read, of course. We have to stop to the phenomenon of drinking palate insult address "snapshot" of the coffee [not really the stuff, is not it?]. Few people are unpleasant to meet. We have also heard that the coffee served at home, the housewives were often victims of abuse, came a few women entrepreneurs in the field of trade in coffee. Some of these not so well they are legends in the industry. This is an excellent book on a subject of "hidden". Understand why coffee prices and the tumult of change, why this is the second most valuable resource in the world why a brand is a pleasure to drink, while another goes down the drain after first experience, this is the place to find out. While you are ordering your copy, I'll just cut them into the kitchen for a cup of tea. . . [Stephen A. Haines - Ottawa, Canada]
Rating: 5 / 5
October 7th, 2009 at 2:21 am
I have this book has an appealing and informative – apparently well-researched, but not academic to the point to be stressful. "Uncommon Grounds" is both a history of American consumerism, and to some extent the history of the world economy, as there is a history of coffee. In many ways this book reminded me of "Made in America" by Bill Bryson.
Rating: 4 / 5