[Sca-cooks] All About Coffee

[Doug Bell]

All about coffee (1922)
Author: Ukers, William Harrison, 1873-

http://archive.org/details/allaboutcoffee00ukeruoft

The original publication is public domain and can be downloaded for free at archive.org.

best regards
Magnus

> I have just received my copy of
> William H. Ukers's All About Coffee recently published by
> Adams Media.  On the cover it says "Abridged and
> Excerpted." After a quick read, I say "Gutted."
> 
> Ukers founded the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal in 1905 and
> published the original edition of All About Coffee in 1922
> (revised and reissued in 1933). It was a scholarly work
> covering all aspects of coffee, history, growing,
> processing, production, and making the cup of coffee. 
> The original work is packed with fact, fable and
> statistics.  Most importantly, it had a large
> bibliography covering the sources.  It is, in my
> opinion, the most complete work ever produced on the
> subject.
> 
> The Adams Media edition dumps the bibliography and most of
> the facts in favor of the apocryphal and the
> anecdotal.  It's fun, cute, easy to read and pretty
> much worthless for any serious consideration of coffee as a
> historical beverage.  If you are truly interested in
> the subject, don't waste your money on this edition, find
> one of the originals from the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal,
> which also published Ukers' All About Tea (a worthy volume
> on that subject).
> 
> Bear 
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