Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Paperback – Illustrated, July 9, 2019
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Paperback – Illustrated, July 9, 2019

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E**S

Incredibly fascinating

I’m only within the first few chapters so will update my review as needed. I’m typically not big on history, but apparently I love it when it comes to things I’m passionate about! I have gained so much even just in the first few chapters. It’s super informative to hear about how large a role coffee has played in world history, for the past few hundred years especially (for better or for worse), but I also walk away remembering the coolest and/or funniest facts that reveal coffee’s infiltration into almost all sectors... like how the very serious J.S. Bach wrote a hilarious cantata all about coffee! I am eating this up!

K**5

Very Interesting

I ordered this as a gift for my son and he has really enjoyed it. He shared a few excerpts from it as we were sitting around and I found it interesting as well.

A**L

DON'T THROW AWAY THE 1st EDITION

The 4 star rating is the average between the 2 editions. The 1st rates a 5*, the2nd only a 3. I have left the review on the 1st edition & have added comments @ thebottom of the review.1st EDITIONThis is an excellent history, but needs a 2nd edition. A lot has happened in thelast 10 years. For instance in 2009, coffee made news as Starbucks had to close someof its shops because of the recession. Also it's now easier to find organic & FairTrade coffee. Vietnam is now one of the top producers of Robusta beans. I wish hewould have dealt a little more with coffee ads which were a major part of coffee'shistory during the 20th century. I didn't start drinking coffee until recently, butI never forgot the Maxwell House percolator tune, Mrs. Olsen, Juan Valdez, or the"IF I DON'T GET AMERICAN ACE COFFEE, I'M GOING BACK TO BED" commercials. JuanValdez' influence is still felt today. Go to any grocery store & you will see 100%COLOMBIAN coffee. By the way, the man in the A.Ace. firing squad commercial inMexico was one of Elvis Presley's back up singers. Since I was once addicted to TV,I remember the commercials very well. Be warned, the book is depressing @ times(when you read abt the coffee farmers or the civil wars & bloodbaths in the coffeeproducing nations), but to anyone who is interested in a detailed discussion ofcoffee history, this is the book to read. I hope that the author will update it.2nd EDITIONI was looking forward to this one, but can only give it mixed reviews. The prefaceis OK & the revised chapter FINAL GROUNDS where he updated the history is excellent.The reason I gave the 2nd ed. only 3 stars is that he chopped out quite a bit of thematerial from the 1st ed. to make the book shorter. He even edited out the Konascandal. I would have preferred that he had just left the book intact (changing onlywhat was found to be incorrect), then adding the new prefix & the update-chapter atthe end. As it is the reader that who has only the 2nd ed. loses a lot of materialfrom the 1st. So if one has the 1st ed, don't throw it away. I will leave it to thereader as to if 2 new chapters are worth the price of the book.

J**.

Thorough, readable, yet scholarly & encyclopedic.

I bought this book for my own information -- I've been a black coffee drinker for c. 60 years, and a real coffee aficionado for the past 15 years or so. The book's size and amount of information are almost overwhelming, and yet the author's clear, reader-friendly, nearly conversational writing style make it as much a "page-turner" as a good mystery novel. He covers the history, geography, economics, and complex sociology & politics of all aspects of this world-wide industry so completely as to make this work a textbook, nay, a one-volume college course. From Asia, Africa, and the Americas, to Starbuck's, Folgers, Maxwell House and everything in the U.S., it's all here. HIGHLY recommended!!

G**8

Decent book about coffee, but there is a better one available for free!

If you are a new coffee fanatic, and are in to roasting your own coffee and wanting to learn all you can about coffee, go ahead and purchase this book, Pendergrast does a pretty good job of covering the coffee world from harvest to cup, and it is in an easy to read format. But I must say, I felt it was basically a "Cliff Note" of the all encompassing "Coffee Bible" that William H. Uker wrote almost a hundred years ago. Ukers book is titled "All About Coffee", and is the acknowledged complete work of every aspect of the coffee world. You can sometimes find the out of print book on Ebay, but it is usually over $150 for a worn out copy! I found that you can go to "Project Gutenberg" on the web and read the entire book, with all the full color hand drawn pictures, absolutely free of charge! Do it! You won't regret it!

G**S

A Vente with a double-shot of guilt

It was almost ironic that I read most of this book while in the local Starbucks. This is a fascinating book on the history of coffee as well as a look at how one guilty pleasure influenced the planet. It made Europeans sober and more political discussing the rights of mankind while enslaving vast numbers of non-European peoples just to put Coffee, Tea and Sugar on their tables. The boiled water reduced the incidence of water-borne diseases. Yet, all the while, underneath the Coffee House Culture lay a vast exploitation of workers, land grabs, speculation, and a host of nefarious people.So, lift the mug and shed a tear and ponder the mysteries of an infusion of roasted ground cherry pits and all the changes it brought to the planet.

S**N

Great read

Im really enjoying the historical approach of Uncommon Grounds, which is less recounting the developments around coffee as it is a good discussion of how coffee influenced the growth of social and political institutions around the world. As a popular lit book it obviously doesnt get as critical as a scholarly publication might, but it is definitely a fun read.My only complaint is that it breezes through the origins and domestication of coffee, but to be fair there very little data out there on that topic. Of all the "history of [esoteric item]" books out there right now, this is definitely one of the better and more interesting ones.

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