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# Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Paperback – September 28, 2010

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## Customer Reviews

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    Coffee Fanatic Reference
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023*

Learn coffee things.

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    DON'T THROW AWAY THE 1st EDITION
  

*by A***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2010*

The 4 star rating is the average between the 2 editions. The 1st rates a 5*, the2nd only a 3. I have left the review on the 1st edition & have added comments @ thebottom of the review.1st EDITIONThis is an excellent history, but needs a 2nd edition. A lot has happened in thelast 10 years. For instance in 2009, coffee made news as Starbucks had to close someof its shops because of the recession.  Also it's now easier to find organic & FairTrade coffee. Vietnam is now one of the top producers of Robusta beans. I wish hewould have dealt a little more with coffee ads which were a major part of coffee'shistory during the 20th century.  I didn't start drinking coffee until recently, butI never forgot the Maxwell House percolator tune, Mrs. Olsen, Juan Valdez, or the"IF I DON'T GET AMERICAN ACE COFFEE, I'M GOING BACK TO BED" commercials. JuanValdez' influence is still felt today. Go to any grocery store & you will see 100%COLOMBIAN coffee. By the way, the man in the A.Ace. firing squad commercial inMexico was one of Elvis Presley's back up singers.  Since I was once addicted to TV,I remember the commercials very well. Be warned, the book is depressing @ times(when you read abt the coffee farmers or the civil wars & bloodbaths in the coffeeproducing nations), but to anyone who is interested in a detailed discussion ofcoffee history, this is the book to read. I hope that the author will update it.2nd EDITIONI was looking forward to this one, but can only give it mixed reviews. The prefaceis OK & the revised chapter FINAL GROUNDS where he updated the history is excellent.The reason I gave the 2nd ed. only 3 stars is that he chopped out quite a bit of thematerial from the 1st ed. to make the book shorter. He even edited out the Konascandal. I would have preferred that he had just left the book intact (changing onlywhat was found to be incorrect), then adding the new prefix & the update-chapter atthe end. As it is the reader that who has only the 2nd ed. loses a lot of materialfrom the 1st. So if one has the 1st ed, don't throw it away. I will leave it to thereader as to if 2 new chapters are worth the price of the book.

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    Thorough, readable, yet scholarly & encyclopedic.
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018*

I bought this book for my own information -- I've been a black coffee drinker for c. 60 years, and a real coffee aficionado for the past 15 years or so. The book's size and amount of information are almost overwhelming, and yet the author's clear, reader-friendly, nearly conversational writing style make it as much a "page-turner" as a good mystery novel. He covers the history, geography, economics, and complex sociology & politics of all aspects of this world-wide industry so completely as to make this work a textbook, nay, a one-volume college course. From Asia, Africa, and the Americas, to Starbuck's, Folgers, Maxwell House and everything in the U.S., it's all here. HIGHLY recommended!!

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