Overview
Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveller must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation's most heralded coffee business hotshots--Counter Culture's Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia's Geoff Watts, and Stump-town's Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America--a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist's pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee--or a great adventure story--you'll love this unprecedented look up close at the people and passions behind today's best beans. AUTHOR: Michaele Weissman is a journalist and author who writes about food, families, business, and American culture. Her work appears frequently in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
Full Product Details
Author: Michaele Weissman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9780470173589
ISBN 10: 0470173580
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 01 May 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
"""Weissman travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur's cup of coffee."" ( Publishers Weekly , March 31, 2008)"
Weissman travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur's cup of coffee. ( Publishers Weekly , March 31, 2008)
Weissman travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur's cup of coffee. (Publishers Weekly, March 31, 2008)
Author Information
Michaele Weissman is a journalist and author who writes about food, families, business, and American culture. Her work appears frequently in publications such as the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Wall Street Journal . Her coffee blog can be found at michaeleweissmanwrites.com/godinacupofcoffee. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband.
