This book is a beautiful world guide to the brown bean. Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee-growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photographs and concise, informative text. It shows the origins of coffee -- where it is grown, the people who grow it; and the cultures in which coffee is a way of life -- and the world of consumption -- processing, grades, the consumer and the modern culture of coffee. Plants...

Coffee shop manager Claire Cosi investigates the murder of a website editor after the launch of online sales for a java love potion called "Mocha Magic Coffee" made with her own Village Blend coffee beans.

Does a Vanilla Bean Cr̈me Frappuccino® sound tasty? Prepare to quench your thirst in this book as you learn about Starbucks®, the most popular coffeehouse company in the world. Discover how the business started in Seattle, Washington. Meet the man who bought the company and changed the whole way it sells coffee. Then, read the rest of the Favorite Food Franchises series for more fascinating facts.

Coffee is one of the largest and most valuable commodities in the world. This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award winning author of Darjeeling. Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia are the original home of Arabica, the most prevalent and superior of the two main species of coffee being cultivated today. Virtually unknown to European explorers,...

When one of her regular customers goes missing, her ex-husband disappears, and she finds a corpse in the park, donut shop owner Suzanne Hart soon discovers that donut-making can be a dangerous business.