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Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Fifth Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Kenneth Davids
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 031224665X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3373
EAN: 9780312246655
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Product Description
Now in its latest revised edition, Kenneth Davids's comprehensive and entertaining Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, remains an invaluable resource for anyone who truly enjoys a good cup of coffee. It features updated information and definitions, a history of coffee culture, tips on storing and brewing, and other essential advice designed to improve the coffee experience. Coffee lovers everywhere will welcome this lively, complete guide to the fascinating world of America's national beverage.
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 Well-rounded, informative and snob-free August 31, 2008
HardcoreGamer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book based on the rave reviews, and I wasn't disappointed. If you're a relative newcomer to coffee, or you're bewildered by all the choices of beans and different roasts, then this book is for you. The author clearly has his own opinion of which coffees are best, but he also makes it clear that coffeelovers are different and therefore have different tastes.
This book will explain the difference between coffees from different places, different roasts, methods of processing, methods of grinding and brewing, as well as buying and storing coffee. He details how to make espresso and cappuccino, French press coffee, drip-brew coffee, and many other common and not-so-common methods of brewing. He will tell you how to determine what kind of coffee to get to fit your taste in regard to origin, roast, grind and brew method, as well as teach you about the history and origins of coffee.
I came into the coffee world knowing nothing, and, after reading this book, I now know more about what I'm looking for in coffee than several of the coffee places I've visited. I'm making my own espresso and cappuccino. Overall, my experience with this book has been all positive. I can think of nothing negative to say about it.
A CLASSIC IN THE FIELD June 16, 2008
Daniele Giovannucci
Ken Davids offers a concise, no-nonsense entry into the world of coffee. Of the several dozen coffee books I own (yes I am a junkie), this is the one that I suggest to anyone wanting to really understand all of the basics. Davids has an amiable wit and easy to read style that are very appealing. For more thsn 2 decades earlier versions of this book were a basic training tool for staff in the coffee stores-cafes that we operated (Fantes).
SURPRISE confert to coffee January 30, 2008
bfahrn (georgia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I WAS a TEA drinker! until I read this book. It was ordered BY MISTAKE in order to qualify for free shipping (thought it was a cup warmer!). I was so annoyed and was about to send it back but - READ it anyway and once started was so intriqued and hankering for real coffee I could smell the aroma right out of the book.
If an author can do that to an avowed tea drinker, and make you run out and buy the best coffee beans and grind them and pour boiling water over the grounds in a strainer with coffee filter until buying a coffee machine when convinced... and DRINK the stuff that does NOT taste like tea but something AMAZING - wow! and bow wow!
Buy this book - whatever you drink now. Read not only all the directions from buying to brewing to drinking, then the history culture and everything connected to Coffee - you're getting the full scope from a first class story teller. (I think I'll go back and read it again, and brew some coffee!)
Coffee should be experienced... January 18, 2008
Doreen M. Luff (Pittsburgh, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very informative and entertaining. I found myself laughing out loud at certain times. The author discusses every aspect of coffee including the best equipment to buy. Being a coffee roaster and brewer of coffee. I found myself agreeing with most of what the author said. I found myself also feeling a wee bit guilty about being lazy and not truly experiencing the best coffee I could by grinding my beans the night before and setting the timer on the coffee pot. I will definitely be changing how I do things in the future. I will definitely be grinding my coffee beans the morning I drink the coffee from now on. Thank you to Mr. Davids. I can't wait to read his next book. Coffee: The Romance and Revival.
 Very Good Book About Coffee July 5, 2007
TJD3 (Kansas City)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love coffee. I especially love good coffee. This book taught me a lot about how to select and brew good coffee. It is a great resource that I go to often when I want to know the answer to questions such as "what is the difference between a cappacino and a latte?"
This book probably has more information about coffee than most people need, but for coffee geeks it is essential.
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