Full name: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

Author: Mark Pendergrast Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780465018369 046501836X

Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous ÒCoffee CrisisÓ that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the Òthird-waveÓ of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the worldÕs favorite beverages. Similar books: The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen Coffee by Antony Wild Spice by Jack Turner Salt by Mark Kurlansky An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Congo by David Van Reybrouck The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel