Coffee (eBook)

Robert W. Thurston is professor emeritus of history at Miami University. Jonathan Morris is research professor of modern European history at the University of Hertfordshire. Shawn Steiman is owner of Coffea Consulting, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

IntroductionRobert W. ThurstonPart I: The Coffee Business1 Strategies for Improving Coffee Quality Price Peterson2 The Coffee Plant and How It Is Handled Shawn Steiman3 Digging Deeper: Cultivation and Yields H. C. "Skip" Bittenbender4 Coffee as a Global System Peter S. Baker5 What Does “Organic” Mean? Robert W. Thurston6 Coffee under Threat: The Growing Problem of the Coffee Berry Borer Juliana Jaramillo 7 Culture, Agriculture, and Nature: Shade Coffee Farms and Biodiversity Robert Rice8 A Guatemalan Coffee Farmer’s Story: A Challenging Life in a Beautiful, Harsh LandCarlos Saenz9 PickersRobert W. Thurston10 Coffee Processing: An Artisan's PerspectiveJoan Obra11 Women in Coffee in ColombiaOlga Cuellar12 How a Country Girl from Arkansas Became an Importer Leading Other Women in CoffeePhyllis Johnson13 The Role of Nonprofits in Coffee August Burns 14 Hunger in the Coffee Lands Rick Peyser 15 The “Price” of Coffee: How the Coffee Commodity Market WorksRobert W. Thurston16 Appreciating Quality: The Route to Upward Mobility for Coffee Farmers George Howell17 What is Specialty Coffee?Shawn Steiman18 Where Does the Money Go in the Coffee Supply Chain?Robert W. ThurstonPart II: The State of the Trade19 The Global Trade in Coffee: An OverviewRobert W. Thurston20 Coffee Certification ProgramsRobert W. Thurston21 Direct Trade in CoffeeGeoff Watts22 Fair Trade: Still a Big Plus for Farmers and Workers around the WorldPaul RiceProducer Country Profiles23 Hawaii Shawn Steiman24 India Sunalini Menon 25 Indonesia Jinap Selamat26 Colombia Luis Alberto Cuéllar 27 Ethiopia Willem Boot28 VietnamRobert W. Thurston29 Brazil Carlos H. J. Brando 30 Supporting Coffee Farmers’ Response to Market ChangesJeremy HaggarConsumer Country Profiles31 Introduction to Consumer CountriesJonathan Morris32 Denmark Camilla C. Valeur 33 France Jonathan Wesley Bell 34 Italy Vincenzo Sandalj 35 United KingdomClare Benfield36 Russia Robert W. Thurston37 Ukraine Sergii Reminny with Jonathan Morris38 Japan Tatsushi Ueshima39 Germany Britta Zeitemann 40 United StatesRobert W. Thurston Part III: The History of Coffee and Its Social Life41 Coffee, a Condensed History Jonathan Morris with material from Robert W. Thurston42 Coffee House Formats through the Centuries: Third Places or Public Spaces? Jonathan Morris43 Why Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery? Steven Topik and Michelle Craig McDonald44 The Ecology of Taste: Robusta Coffee and the Limits of the Specialty Revolution Stuart McCook45 The Espresso Menu: A History Jonathan Morris46 The Competing Languages of Coffee: Signs, Narratives, and Symbols of American Specialty Coffee Kenneth DavidsPart IV: The Qualities of Coffee47 Coffee QualityGeoff Watts48 Why Does Coffee Taste That Way? Notes from the Field Shawn Steiman49 Coffee Quality and AssessmentShawn Steiman50 Distinctive Drinking: Specialty Coffee and Class in the United StatesJonathan D. Baker51 Brewing: Dissolving the Puzzle Andrew Hetzel52 Roasting: Developing Flavor in the Bean Colin Smith 53 Roasting Culture Connie Blumhardt and Jim Fadden54 Barista Culture Sarah Allen 55 Brewing Culture Alf KramerCoffee and Health56 The Long Debate over Coffee and Health Robert W. Thurston57 Caffeine: How Much Is in Your Cup, and How Much Is Bad for You?Robert W. Thurston58 Recent Research on Coffee and HealthLawrence W. JonesPart V: The Future of Coffee59 Coffee Research in Kenya: Current Status and Future Perspectives Elijah K. Gichuru60 Genetically Modified (Transgenic) CoffeeRobert W. Thurston61 Mechanization Robert W. Thurston62 A Life in CoffeeTed Lingle 63 How to Make a Great Cup of Coffee Robert W. Thurston with Shawn Steiman and Jonathan MorrisGlossary