Ben Waber reviewed Coffee by Robert W. Thurston
A Wide-Ranging Review of All Things Coffee
4 stars
When they say "comprehensive," they're not kidding. Covering everything from the biology of the coffee plant, coffee economics, consumption history, and agricultural and production methods, each chapter serves as an introduction to a specific area of coffee. I wanted to read this from more of a workplace/economics perspective, and for those of you who want to do the same I highly recommend the producer and consumer country profile chapters, the entire section on the history of coffee and its social life, and the chapter on mechanization.
When they say "comprehensive," they're not kidding. Covering everything from the biology of the coffee plant, coffee economics, consumption history, and agricultural and production methods, each chapter serves as an introduction to a specific area of coffee. I wanted to read this from more of a workplace/economics perspective, and for those of you who want to do the same I highly recommend the producer and consumer country profile chapters, the entire section on the history of coffee and its social life, and the chapter on mechanization.