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Here are a few suggestions for reading and learning more about coffee.
- Recommended reading:
- Ken Davids, "Home Coffee Roasting...", ISBN: 0312312199
- Quick start guide to coffee, its history, how it's grown, processed & roasted.
And, of course, how everyone can roast coffee at home. It's dead easy & it tastes great! New revised & updated edition 2003.
- Ted Lingle, "The basics of brewing coffee", ISBN: 188255032
- Ian Bersten, "Coffee floats, tea sinks", ISBN: 0646091808
- Exhaustive explanations of coffee brewing & the history of coffee makers
- Mark Pendergrast, "Uncommon grounds", ISBN: 0465054676
- William Ukers, "All about coffee"
- Starters and light stuff:
- Kevin Sinnott, "Great Coffee...", ISBN: 0882708414
- Riccardo and Francesco Illy, "The Book of Coffee: A Gourmet's Guide", ISBN: 1558593217
- Difficult to find & probably out of print, but both a good introduction to coffee growing & processing, as well as a beautiful
addition to the coffee table - lots of very nice full colour pictures
- Jon Thorn, "The coffee companion", ISBN: 1561385220
- Ken Davids, "Coffee, a guide to...", ISBN: 1564265552
- Claudia Roden, "Coffee", ISBN: 0140464891
- More about coffee makers (historical):
- Ambrogio Fumagalli, "Macchine da caffé/Coffee makers", ISBN: 8871430999
- Edward & Joan Bramah, "Coffee Makers: 300 Years of Art and Design", ISBN: 1870948335
- For die-hards:
- Luigi Odello (ed.), "L'assaggio dell'espresso/Espresso tasting" (no ISBN, AFAIK)
- Interesting book on evaluating espresso for various purposes
- Ted Lingle, "The basics of cupping coffee" (no ISBN)
- Basically an (almost) exhaustive glossary of coffee cupping terms
- Andrea Illy, and R. Viani, "Espresso Coffee : The Chemistry of Quality", ISBN: 012370670X
- New edition (ISBN: 0123703719) available! Read more on the Elsevier site
- WANTED!
(Books I don't have, but definitely desire)
- Ivon Flament, "Coffee Flavor Chemistry", ISBN: 0471720380
- Gregory Dicum, Nina Luttinger, "The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry...", ISBN: 1565845080
- Philippe Jobin, Coffees Produced Through Out the World, (ISBN: ???)
- Now available on CD-Rom at: Ongebrand (NL)
- David C. Schomer, "Espresso Coffee: Professional Techniques", ISBN: 0897166159
- Kenneth Davids, "Espresso : Ultimate Coffee", ISBN: 0312246668
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