The Coffee Book: Barista tips * recipes * beans from around the world

by Anette Moldvaer

Overview

Deepen your coffee knowledge, experiment with different beans, methods, and flavors, and become a barista at home with The Coffee Book and its 70 recipes.

Discover the origins of coffee and its production before exploring over 40 country profiles, showcasing the incredible variety of beans grown around the world.

Appreciate the nuances of flavor from bean to bean using the taster's wheel to identify different flavors and understand which notes complement one another.

Master different roasting, grinding, tamping and brewing techniques, plus the equipment needed.

Experiment with some 70 recipes, ranging from café culture classics, such as the Americano, to more adventurous flavor combinations like the Almond Fig Latte or the Hazelnut Frappé as well as non-dairy milk alternatives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744051018
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	174 MB
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About the Author

Anette Moldvaer is the co-founder and green coffee buyer of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, an award-winning roasting company. Anette has judged international trade competitions, such as the World Barista Championships, and leads workshops in Europe, the US, Latin America, and Africa; she is also a World Cup Tasting Champion. She began her career as a barista in Norway in 1999, and now visits coffee producers around the globe, sourcing the very best coffees.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/01/2022

Dating back to the 15th century and encompassing 124 known species, coffee today is a big business. In this fascinating book, Moldvaer (cofounder and owner, Square Mile Coffee Roasters) concentrates on the only two species that are grown commercially: Arabica and Robusta. She summarizes coffee's history and discusses the 70 countries best known for commercial coffee production. Other topics include production methods, grinding, brewing equipment, and proper brewing techniques, bean quality, storage, freshness, home roasting, and coffee-brewing equipment and methods. Much more than a coffee-table book, this enlightening, heavily pictorial work, originally published as Coffee Obsession, is loaded with full-color photos and illustrations including diagrams, charts, maps, and a flavor appreciation wheel to assist readers with coffee identification. Similar titles, such as Daniel Lancaster's The Coffee Recipe Book: 50 Coffee and Espresso Drinks To Make at Home focus on recipes, while other books tend to look at roasting practices or business operations. Moldvaer takes a little from each topic, presenting the full coffee picture from beginning (growing the beans) to the final product (sample recipes). A helpful glossary, a detailed index, and 70-plus recipes round out the work. VERDICT In-depth and accessible, this volume will fascinate coffee lovers wanting to learn more about the popular beverage, as well as those interested in learning about coffee varieties, brewing techniques, and recipes.—Laurie Selwyn

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