
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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Narrated by:
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Matthew Boston
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By:
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Mark Pendergrast
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
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Bad; terrible conditions for workers makes on feel guilty about drinking coffee.
Coffee some good some bad
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My morning cup. The characters tied to this history make it even more fascinating . #espresso
Fascinating daily brew
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A history of coffee!
I found this book fascinating…but then I love history and I love coffee, so I may be biased.
The author follows coffee from it’s inception on the world markets centuries ago to it’s modern “Fair Trade” usage.
Coffee was instrumental in warfare, in governments and…addiction.
One more recent fact, speaking of fair trade…for the longest time the people who raised and harvested coffee had never even tasted it.
Most may become bored with the minutiae in this book, but I found it interesting.
A history of coffee!
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Solid
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Good information for the coffee enthusiast!
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I also found the recording to be lacking. I never quite grew accustomed to Boston's voice for this project, though his reading was clear and professional. Worse however -- and this will sound like a quibble, but it was quite severe in its impact -- is the audiobook's strange production when it comes to spacing between sections. Other than chapter breaks, there are no pauses between sections, which consistently created jarring transitions that required effort to figure out that we have left the previous section and started a new, virtually unrelated topic. I've never experienced this in any of several hundred non-fiction audiobooks, so it's a bit puzzling how the publisher allowed it to happen. When you add this to the author's lack of narrative structure beyond the straightforward dates-and-places of other dry tomes, this strange production quirk oddly contributed to the book's overall encyclopedic feel. Which is unfortunate, as these gapless section breaks could be so easily fixed by any entry-level sound engineer.
Encyclopedic breadth, but too dry
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WARNING: WILL MAKE YOU A COFFEE SNOB!
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Good audio book on many modern day coffee history
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Good and informative but tedious.
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The Coffee Bible
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