Coffee books introduce Uncommon Grounds left-handed coffee right-handed world

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World

Chinese Title: Coffee on the Left, World on the Right

Press: Mechanical Industry

Uncommon Grounds entered the field of vision a few years ago. Recently, the mechanical engineer published the Chinese version, but after translation, the name was much different_left-hand coffee, right-hand world. If it weren't for the fact that the introduction mentioned the original name of Uncommon Grounds, it would have been difficult to connect the two together, not to mention that the book cover had been changed.

The Chinese translation is eye-catching, but compared with the original, the original title is more plain and well summarizes the content of the book, the history of coffee and how it transformed the world, the history of coffee and how coffee changed the world. For some friends who buy books only by looking at the title of the book, the Chinese translation is easy to mislead.

Talk less, talk about content.

The books are grouped into business history categories, which can be seen as a history of the coffee industry in the United States, with references to coffee in other countries, including producing and consuming countries.

The book focuses on telling a chronicle of the coffee industry in the United States, but the author has a broad vision and takes into account the background of the coffee industry all over the world. For example, he will also mention the discovery of coffee and the origin of coffee such as Brazil.

Much of the book is a good complement to existing coffee books, for example, when it comes to the economics of coffee production, many books have actually used the ups and downs of Brazilian coffee prices, but this book (Uncommon Grounds) is the first detailed record of the Brazilian coffee situation; including a more detailed introduction to the face of coffee beans market price fluctuations, the Brazilian government and industry to make a variety of responses, associated with this year, Yunnan coffee beans prices fell below the cost line of various reports, although nearly a century has passed, still read a lot of emotion.

The book describes in detail the rise of coffee in the United States, as the world's largest coffee consumption country, coffee this status is how to achieve, read this book can find a clearer answer.

The book tells the history of the American coffee industry, from the instant coffee boom to the specialty coffee boom.

This book provides a chance to catch up on the history of coffee in America. It is a rich read, and the author's writing is interesting, with occasional moments of empathy. Of course, this immersive reading experience is also inseparable from the work of the translator. As a translation of a well-known foreign book, the translation of this article can be given four stars. Although there are mistakes, it can be seen from the translation of many coffee terms that the translator has done his homework, no nonsense, and quite responsible.

This book is suitable for people:

Friends who are interested in coffee history and culture and don't mind reading long texts. Roughly 400 pages, full of text, 300,000 words.

Reading tips:

This book is a cultural and historical background book, although it also mentions the specialty coffee trend and its development in the United States, and the author's narrative tone also reveals the pursuit of coffee quality and recognition of high quality coffee, but it should be noted that the center of this book is coffee, and specialty coffee is only part of it.

This book has nothing to do with coffee technology, technical control friends please pay attention. In addition, practical readers should also note that there is no recipe without practice.