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Coffee Basics: A Quick and Easy Guide

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Coffee Basics: A Quick and Easy GuidePut your local coffee bar to the test with Coffee Basics With thousands of coffee bars and restaurants serving an endless variety of blends, roasts, and brews, ordering a specialty coffee drink has become as daunting a task as selecting a fine wine. How can you distinguish between great coffee and great hype? Read Coffee Basics. Kevin Knox and Julie Sheldon Huffaker have filled this handy reference with hundreds of industry truths and trade secrets.

Put your local coffee bar to the test with Coffee Basics

With thousands of coffee bars and restaurants serving an endless variety of blends, roasts, and brews, ordering a specialty coffee drink has become as daunting a task as selecting a fine wine. How can you distinguish between great coffee and great hype? Read Coffee Basics.

Kevin Knox and Julie Sheldon Huffaker have filled this handy reference with hundreds of industry truths and trade secrets. You'll learn the fundamentals of coffee buying, brewing, and tasting; and develop an aficionado's ability to see beyond the expensive trappings of today's coffee explosion. You'll discover:

  • The basic coffee facts: its origin, history, and many varieties
  • Step-by-step methods for selecting, roasting, blending, and flavoring coffee to taste
  • A coffee taster's glossary
  • Simple charts showing grind progression, relative grinding times, and regional characteristics
  • The scoop on decaffeinated, organic, and espresso beans
  • Specialty coffee recipes
  • Lists of the best sources for beans and professional equipment

Whether you make coffee at home or at a fine restaurant, Coffee Basics offers a bottomless cup of brewing knowledge and drinking pleasure.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 10/25/1996
ISBN: 9780471136170
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.19h x 5.87w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Rec Ref Bks in Paperback 01/01/2000 pg. 116

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It's a pretty good book, however I am finding quite a lot of typos, and editing errors, one in particular was on page 101 The review questions don't match the review answers, had to edit a lot of it by hand.
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