THE WORLD ATLAS OF COFFEE James Hoffmann

Publisher: Octopus
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271

Synopsis: A beautiful world guide to the brown bean.
Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee-growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photographs and concise, informative text. It shows the origins of coffee -- where it is grown, the people who grow it; and the cultures in which coffee is a way of life -- and the world of consumption -- processing, grades, the consumer and the modern culture of coffee.
Plants of the genus Coffea are cultivated in more than 70 countries but primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. For some countries, including Central African Republic, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Honduras, coffee is the number one export and critical to the economy.
Organized by continent and then further by country or region, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the brew in color spreads packed with information.
They include:
- The history of coffee generally and regionally
- The role of colonialism
- Map of growing regions and detail maps
- Charts explaining differences in growing regions within a country Inset boxes
- The politics of coffee and the fair trade, organic and shade grown phenomena
- Beautiful color photographs taken in the field.