The book of Coffee/ Alain Stella

Il Caffe sospeso/ Coffee pioneers/ Coffee Country/ A good cup of coffee/ Coffee society/ Connoisseur´s Guide.

How many of us appreciate the extent to which coffee, first popularized during the fifteenth century, has changed the world?

Coffee has circled the globe and is now consumed by billions of people who value it for the extraordinary benefits it bestows: its delicious flavors and frangrances, of course; plus its virtues as a physical and mental stimulant; and, above all, its admirable ability to inspire conviviality. From Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, coffee warms the soul and brings people together.

Discovered in a remote corner of Abyssinia, coffee has its roots in a land where genies appear from magic lamps, and where seers use it to foretell the future. No wonder coffee began its history surrounded by an aura of mystery and legend.