zkhesbak's review
3.0
With some brief allowances for technical aspects of coffee, focuses primarily on the history, culture, and social issues surrounding coffee.
evamadera1's review
2.0
This book could have been great. However, a number of things kept me from being able to recommend it at all. First, the print was entirely too small. It's aesthetic detail but it's pretty important. Second, any logical organization was completely missing from what I've discovered later was a series of essays on the coffee topic. The title states that it's a guide and know where mentions that it's forms of over 50 different essays. That was a big turn off. Back to the organization, the author/editor chose to start the book with a series of essays all about the injustice/ill-treatment up for workers. He then ends the book with a section on history and how coffee is roasted. Not only is that a logical but by the time the raise their reaches that point they are probably turned off of the topic in general. I know I was. Want those history essays were better it was not enough to make up for everything that's already been mentioned. I don't recommend this book and hope that there are better books about coffee in the world.
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