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Uncommon grounds

by Mark Pendergrast

Coffee industryCoffeeHistoryCoffee tradeNew York Times reviewed
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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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Coffee industryCoffeeHistoryCoffee tradeNew York Times reviewed

Author

Mark Pendergrast

Pages

480

Read time

≈ 12h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Basic Books

ISBN

9781541699380

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