Uncommon Grounds : : the History of Coffee and how it Transformed our World

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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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: How to brew the perfect cup -- Notes on sources -- List of interviews -- Illustration credits -- Index.
From the Publisher: Uncommon Grounds is the definitive history of coffee-from its discovery on an Ethiopian mountainside to the age of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the twenty-first century. A sweeping epic, Uncommon Grounds uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as a window through which to view broad historical themes: the clash and blending of cultures, slavery, the rise of brand marketing, global inequities, fair trade, revolutions, health scares, environmental issues, and the rediscovery of quality. Replete with a cast of eccentric characters-all of them suffused with a passion for the golden bean-Uncommon Grounds is nothing less than a coffee-flavored history of the world, the classic work on coffee culture, fully updated for our times.

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