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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020952999 ISBN: 978-1-119-67901-1 ISBN: 978-1-119-67904-2 (ebk); ISBN: 978-1-119-67905-9 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents at a Glance Introduction . 1 Coffee Part 1: Getting Started with Coffee . 5 CHAPTER 1: Demystifying Coffee: Just the Basics . 7 CHAPTER 2: Figuring Out What Coffee Is . 21 Part 2: The Story of Coffee . 39 CHAPTER 3: Familiarizing Yourself with Some Coffee History . 41 CHAPTER 4: Taking a Closer Look at Brewing Today . 51 Part 3: Taking a Trip around the World . 59 CHAPTER 5: Sourcing Coffee — Digging In to Where Coffee Comes From . 61 CHAPTER 6: Considering the Western Hemisphere . 71 CHAPTER 7: Discussing Africa . 97 CHAPTER 8: Addressing the Eastern Hemisphere and Asia Pacific . 111 Part 4: Roasting Coffee . 123 CHAPTER 9: The History of Roasting . 125 CHAPTER 10: Roasting for Flavor . 131 Part 5: Preparing Coffee and Espresso . 141 CHAPTER 11: Exploring the Brewing Methods and Mastering the Tricks . 143 CHAPTER 12: Making Espresso Easier . 159 Part 6: Perusing Today’s Coffee Business . 177 CHAPTER 13: Meeting Some Coffee Trailblazers . 179 CHAPTER 14: Looking at Where Coffee Is Today . 197 Part 7: The Part of Tens . 215 CHAPTER 15: Ten (or So) Myths about Coffee Debunked . 217 CHAPTER 16: Ten (Plus One) Places to Find a Great Cup of Coffee . 225 Part 8: Appendixes . 237 APPENDIX A: Glossary . 239 APPENDIX B: Timeline of Key History of Coffee . 251 Index . 257 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . 1 About This Book . 1 Foolish Assumptions . .. 2 Icons Used in This Book . 3 Where to Go from Here . 3 PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH COFFEE . 5 CHAPTER 1: Demystifying Coffee: Just the Basics . 7 Understanding What Coffee Is (and Isn’t) . 8 Appreciating Coffee — from Its Past to Today . 8 A world of farms and fickle crops . 9 Going back to coffee’s roots . 9 Examining coffee and roasting today . .. 10 Traveling Worldwide — Where Coffee Is Grown . 10 Visiting the Western Hemisphere . 11 Heading to Africa . 13 Heading to the Eastern Hemisphere . 14 The Lowdown on Roasting Coffee . 16 Examining Brewing . 16 Brewing Espresso . 17 Examining Where Coffee Is Now . 17 Identifying some of the people behind the coffee industry today . 17 Recognizing coffee’s presence today . 18 CHAPTER 2: Figuring Out What Coffee Is . 21 Understanding the Life Cycle of Coffee: From Seed to Bud to Cherry to Harvest . 22 Flowers appear on coffee tree branches . 23 The flowers develop into a cherry . 24 A team of pickers pick the cherries . .. 25 The pickers hand sort the picked cherries . 27 The cherries are processed . 27 Meeting the Two Main Types of Coffee and Understanding the Subspecies . .. 29 Processing the Cherry: Getting to the Bean . 31 Washed coffee processing . 33 Semi-washed processing . 35 Natural processing . 36 Pulped natural or honey processing . .37 Table of Contents v PART 2: THE STORY OF COFFEE . 39 CHAPTER 3: Familiarizing Yourself with Some Coffee History . 41 Understanding How Geography Is Linked to History — the Coffee Belt . 41 Looking Back at Coffee’s Roots . 42 Kaldi and his goats . 42 From Ethiopia to the Arabian Peninsula . 43 Thanks to Baba Budan, coffee appears in India . 44 Heading to Europe . and Beyond . 44 The first coffeehouses open . 45 Coffee’s ups and downs in England . 46 Coffee and the American colonies . 47 The Americas and first coffee trees . 47 Three centuries of dramatic change . 49 CHAPTER 4: Taking a Closer Look at Brewing Today . 51 Understanding a Brewing Force — Alfred Peet and His Focus on Quality . 51 Buying, roasting, and creating a new coffee culture . 52 Generously growing the coffee community . 52 Specialty coffee is born . .. 53 Introducing Howard Schultz — the Father of Today’s Starbucks . 53 Traveling to Italy changed everything . 53 Expanding the business . 54 Expanding Brewed Specialty Coffee Worldwide . 54 England breaks out . 55 U.S. brewers create excitement . 55 Meeting consumer demands . 56 Understanding the Role of the National Coffee Association . .57 Overall coffee consumption . 57 Coffee drink trends . 57 Coffee drinking by generation . .. 58 PART 3: TAKING A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD . 59 CHAPTER 5: Sourcing Coffee — Digging In to Where Coffee Comes From . 61 Taking a Bird’s-Eye Look: The Coffee Belt . 61 Identifying the top coffee producers . 62 Recognizing what makes these countries so unique to growing coffee . 65 Understanding Nature’s Role in Growing Coffee . 66 Recognizing How Climate Change Is Changing Coffee . 67 vi Coffee For Dummies CHAPTER 6: Considering the Western Hemisphere . 71 Eyeing Central America’s Influence on Coffee Production . 72 Costa Rica . 72 El Salvador . 74 Guatemala . 76 Honduras . 77 Mexico . .. 78 Nicaragua . 79 Panama . 80 Looking Closer at South America’s Contributions to Coffee Production . 82 Bolivia . 82 Brazil . 83 Colombia . 85 Ecuador . 85 Peru . 87 Venezuela . 89 Examining the Caribbean’s Impact on Coffee . 90 Cuba . 91 Dominican Republic . 92 Jamaica . 93 Getting the Aloha Feel: Hawaii’s Influence on Coffee Production . 94 CHAPTER 7: Discussing Africa . 97 Looking Closer at Northeastern Africa . 98 Ethiopia . 98 Kenya . .. 101 Examining Central and Southern Africa . .. 103 Burundi . 103 Congo . 105 Malawi . 106 Rwanda . ..