Pendergrast, Mark, <br/><br/>
Uncommon grounds :  the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / 
Mark Pendergrast. 
 - xix, 458 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Prologue: The Oriflama Harvest --  Introduction: Puddle Water or Panacea? --  Seeds of Conquest --  Coffee Colonizes the World --  The Coffee Kingdoms --  The American Drink --  The Great Coffee Wars of the Gilded Age --  Hermann Sielcken and Brazilian Valorization --  The Drug Drink --  Canning the Buzz --  Growing Pains --  Making the World Safe for Coffee --  Selling an Image in the Jazz Age --  Burning Beans, Starving Campesinos --  Showboating the Depression --  Cuppa Joe --  Bitter Brews --  Coffee Witch Hunts and Instant Nongratification --  Robusta Triumphant --  Romancing the Bean --  A Scattered Band of Fanatics --  The Black Frost --  The Specialty Revolution --  The Starbucks Experience --  Final Grounds --  How to Brew the Perfect Cup --  Notes --  Bibliography --  List of Interviews --  Acknowledgments --  Index.  Pt. 1.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Pt. 2.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  Pt. 3.  13.  14.  Pt. 4.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  App. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465054676 9780465054671 0465036317 9780465036318 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002319013 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coffee--History.<br/>Coffee industry--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX415  / .P45 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.3373