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All About
Coffee
ALL ABOUT COFFEE
COFFEE BRANCHES, FLOWERS, AND FRUITShowing the Berry in its Various Ripening Stages from Flower to Cherry
(Inset: 1, green bean; 2, silver skin; 3, parchment; 4, fruit pulp.)
Painted from life by Blendon Campbell
ALL ABOUT
COFFEE
By
WILLIAM H. UKERS, M.A.
Editor
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL
NEW YORK
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL COMPANY
1922
Copyright 1922
BY
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL COMPANY
New York
International Copyright Secured
All Rights Reserved in U.S.A. and
Foreign Countries
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
To My Wife
HELEN DE GRAFF UKERS
PREFACE
Seventeen years ago the author of this work made his first trip abroadto gather material for a book on coffee. Subsequently he spent a year intravel among the coffee-producing countries. After the initial surveys,correspondents were appointed to make researches in the principalEuropean libraries and museums; and this phase of the work continueduntil April, 1922. Simultaneous researches were conducted in Americanlibraries and historical museums up to the time of the return of thefinal proofs to the printer in June, 1922.
Ten years ago the sorting and classification of the material was begun.The actual writing of the manuscript has extended over four years.
Among the unique features of the book are the Coffee Thesaurus; theCoffee Chronology, containing 492 dates of historical importance; theComplete Reference Table of the Principal Kinds of Coffee Grown in theWorld; and the Coffee Bibliography, containing 1,380 references.
The most authoritative works on this subject have been Robinson's TheEarly History of Coffee Houses in England, published in London in 1893;and Jardin's Le Café, published in Paris in 1895. The author wishes toacknowledge his indebtedness to both for inspiration and guidance. Otherworks, Arabian, French, English, German, and Italian, dealing withparticular phases of the subject, have been laid under contribution; andwhere this has been done, credit is given by footnote