The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing -- Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed

This is a beautiful and brilliant book. As an ex-barista, I have more coffee books than I know what to do with, but this is by far the most lovely. It's coffee book meets coffee-table book. Full of information and tremendous photographs.If you do plan to read it, know that it's densely packed with information, and not an introductory style light read.Espresso from Bean to Cup, The Complete Guide to Expresso, Cappuccino, Latte and Coffee Is a great introductory option (for almost no money) as an introduction to espresso - it touches on other coffee and beans some. Although a bit dated, it is full of useful information.Another option is Kenneth David's book: Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and EnjoyingI haven't spent much time with the Blue Bottle coffee book, but it is a bit more modern, and addresses all types of coffee, and comes highly recommended.

This is an excellent coffee book. I've been roasting my own coffee for over a year now, and I haven't found a good book that explains the details I've been looking for until I found this book. It's not only a good table top book ( because the pictures are really nice!) but it has wonderful reference points and knowledge in it as well. In just the week that I've had it, I've been able to correct some of my own errors in roasting where other books I have make no mention of where I needed the extra help.

This Book is really excellent where I got lot of depth knowledges about coffee which I was looking for .Myself being Coffee Student I would thank to James Hoffman and his whole Team for this Book which definitely will help me to get knowledge to make the career in this Industry.Cover Page ,Photos ,Font color and over all Presentation is Awesome.It would be great in Future we might get the rest of other Coffee Origins which are not covered yet on this Book.GREAT Coffee BOOK.

4/5

Very good and instructional book. Will teach you much about coffee origin and helps you to bond with your coffee better. You will learn the basics of many methods for preparing coffee and you will also get some advanced tips. It is easy to apply the books information to different situations to help you communicate with your coffee.Very good overall read, would advice to anyone who is in to coffee

This book is highly recommended for all the coffee aficionados. It has the right balance between factual information, pictures and maps. The title is slightly misleading. Only half of the book is dedicated to worldwide coffee production map locations. The other half is dedicated to general information on coffee bean types, coffee making, coffee machines and coffee terminology. I gave this book five stars because it is the best book on the subject I could find. Read & enjoy.

I am new to brewing and grinding my own custom coffee and that's why I bought this excellent book. There is a LOT of great information about all the different kinds of coffee, on a world round basis. I doubt I will even be able to get a handle on all of them, but it's very nice to have a reference that I can go to when friends make suggestions. The part of the book dealing with grinding and brewing offered many good suggestions and I am very happy I make this purchase.

For this size of a book it has great detail on everything to do with coffee. A great gift for anyone who is a coffee snob (as I have been called often). Nice photos and maps to give you a good visual of equipment, geography, . . . .I love to not only have a great cup of coffee to drink but, a well rounded understanding of the entire process to have that cup of coffee in my hand.