Coffee: a comprehensive guide to the bean, the beverage, and the industry

Part 1. The coffee business -- Strategies for improving coffee quality -- The coffee plant and how it is handled -- Digging deeper : cultivation and yields -- Coffee as a global system -- What does "organic" mean? -- Coffee under threat : the growing problem of the coffee berry borer -- Culture, agriculture, and nature : shade coffee farms and biodiversity -- A Guatemalan coffee farmer's story : a challenging life in a beautiful, harsh land -- Pickers -- Coffee processing : an artisan's perspective -- Women in coffee in Colombia -- How a country girl from Arkansas became an importer leading other women in coffee -- The role of nonprofits in coffee -- Hunger in the coffee lands -- The "price" of coffee : how the coffee commodity market works -- Appreciating quality : the route to upward mobility for coffee farmers -- What is specialty coffee? -- Where does the money go in the coffee supply chain? -- Part 2. The state of the trade -- The global trade in coffee : an overview -- Coffee certification programs -- Direct trade in coffee -- Fair trade : still a big plus for farmers and workers around the world -- A. Producer country profiles -- Hawaii -- India -- Indonesia -- Colombia -- Ethiopia -- Vietnam -- Brazil -- Supporting coffee farmers' response to market changes -- B. Consumer country profiles -- Introduction to consumer countries -- Denmark -- France -- Italy -- United Kingdom -- Russia -- Ukraine -- Japan -- Germany -- United States --

Part 3. The history of coffee and its social life

Coffee, a condensed history

Coffeehouse formats through the centuries: third places or public spaces?

Why Americans drink coffee : the Boston Tea Party or Brazilian slavery?

The ecology of taste : robusta coffee and the limits of the specialty revolution

The espresso menu : an international history

The competing languages of coffee : signs, narratives, and symbols of American specialty coffee

Part 4. The qualities of coffee

Coffee quality

Why does coffee taste that way? : notes from the field

Coffee quality and assessment

Distinctive drinking : specialty coffee and class in the United States

Brewing : dissolving the puzzle

Roasting : developing flavor in the bean

Roasting culture

Barista culture

Brewing culture

A. Coffee and health

The long debate over coffee and health

Caffeine : how much is in your cup, and how much is bad for you?

Recent research on coffee and health

Part 5. The future of coffee

Coffee research in Kenya : current status and future perspectives

Genetically modified (transgenic) coffee

Mechanization

A life in coffee

How to make a great cup of coffee.