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The Coffee Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best Brews

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This is a very nice book about coffee. It explains the history of the drink, the different ways of making it, including glossary's, and also what kind of coffees from around the world there are. Nice buy if you can find it. My edition is from the mid-90's, so I hope there is some kind of update.

The book is well written, compact, concise and wealth of knowledge. Thorn explores all the richness that embodies coffee from its planting and cultivation to the methods used to select and grade coffee finally reaching the apex of the journey; getting it into your belly. Covering areas that are not explored in the modern American style of "get it faster and consume quicker", Thorn enlightens me to the simple pleasures that go into the preparing a proper pot of coffee; be that pot by drip, press or vacuum. the book is short enough to be read in an afternoon, but detailed enough to draw you into the kitchen after you had done so. I have purchased several of these books to give as gifts and one to have around for myself.