Coffee: A Connoisseur's Companion - Hardcover

Roden, Claudia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679437398 ISBN 13: 9780679437390

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1994

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An award-winning food writer explores the culinary history of coffee, discussing its cultivation, evaluating the finest coffee beans from around the world, sharing advice on its preparation, and presenting forty-five delicious recipes, from iced coffee to desserts. 15,000 first printing.

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e of the essential pleasures of life, but very few people know much about it. Fortunately for us, award-winning food writer Claudia Roden has taken it upon herself to rectify the situation with this scholarly, entertaining, and practical volume. In charming prose, she narrates the fascinating story of coffee as both crop and beverage, and opens up for us the infinite possibilities the drink has to offer.

From its exotic beginnings in Africa and Arabia, coffee swept through Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth century, profoundly changing patterns of life as it went. Although it suffered religious persecution, social prejudice, and fierce political opposition, coffee reigned supreme and was soon being grown in prodigious quantities around the world.

Roden explains the labor-intensive processes of growing coffee and preparing the beans, provides an invaluable guide to the quality beans of the world, and dispenses expert advice on all the steps of coffee preparation, from

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679437398
• ISBN 13: 9780679437390
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120