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Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world
Pendergrast, Mark.
Adult Nonfiction TX415 .P46 1999
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| Contents | Page |
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| Prologue: The Oriflama Harvest | p. xi |
| Introduction: Puddle Water or Panacea? | p. xv |
| Part 1 - Seeds of Conquest | |
| 1 - Coffee Colonizes the World | p. 3 |
| 2 - The Coffee Kingdoms | p. 21 |
| 3 - The American Drink | p. 45 |
| 4 - The Great Coffee Wars of the Gilded Age | p. 63 |
| 5 - Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian Valorization | p. 77 |
| 6 - The Drug Drink | p. 95 |
| Part 2 - Canning the Buzz | |
| 7 - Growing Pains | p. 115 |
| 8 - Making the World Safe for Coffee | p. 143 |
| 9 - Selling an Image in the Jazz Age | p. 155 |
| 10 - Burning Beans, Starving Campesinos | p. 179 |
| 11 - Showboating the Depression | p. 189 |
| 12 - Cuppa Joe | p. 217 |
| Part 3 - Bitter Brews | |
| 13 - Coffee Witch Hunts and Instant Nongratification | p. 235 |
| 14 - Robusta Triumphant | p. 257 |
| Part 4 - Romancing the Bean | |
| 15 - A Scattered Band of Fanatics | p. 291 |
| 16 - The Black Frost | p. 317 |
| 17 - The Specialty Revolution | p. 337 |
| 18 - The Starbucks Experience | p. 367 |
| 19 - Final Grounds | p. 389 |
| Appendix - How to Brew the Perfect Cup | p. 427 |
| Notes | p. 431 |
| Bibliography | p. 461 |
| List of Interviews | p. 497 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 499 |
| Index | p. 503 |
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