Coffee isn't rocket science A quick and easy guide to buying, brewing, serving, roasting, and tasting coffee

Sébastien Racineux

Book - 2018

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Subjects
Published
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Sébastien Racineux (author)
Other Authors
Chung-Leng Tran (author), Yannis Varoutsikos (illustrator), Jackie Smith (translator)
Edition
First English language edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
184 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780316439589
  • Chapter 1. Coffee miscellanea
  • What kind of coffee drinker are you?
  • Coffees for every taste
  • Coffee around the world
  • Where to get a coffee
  • The coffee family
  • The coffee trade
  • The coffee professionals
  • Coffee lingo
  • The trouble with coffee
  • Chapter 2. Making a coffee
  • Grinding your coffee
  • Coffee grinders
  • Types of burrs $$$
  • Maintaining your grinder
  • Water!
  • A quick chemistry lesson
  • Choosing your water
  • Your perfect cup
  • The espresso cup
  • Espresso
  • The long history of a short coffee
  • Espresso: the tasting experience
  • Tasting
  • Example of a tasting form
  • The espresso machine
  • Choosing your machine
  • Maintaining your machine
  • How it works
  • How to maintain a stable temperature $$$
  • The barista's routine
  • The strength of the espresso
  • Styles of espresso
  • Espresso by the numbers $$$
  • Espresso map $$$
  • It doesn't taste right! Why?
  • Milk, coffee & latte art
  • The heart
  • The tulip
  • The rosetta
  • Cappuccino & Co
  • Filter coffee
  • What you need to make filter coffee
  • Filter coffee: the tasting experience
  • Example of a tasting form
  • Coffee filters
  • The French press
  • The Aeropress
  • The Clever Coffee Dripper
  • The siphon
  • The Hario V60
  • The Chemex
  • The Kalita Wave
  • The moka pot
  • The electric coffee maker
  • Filter coffee by the numbers $$$
  • Cold coffee
  • Cold brew
  • Japanese-style iced coffee
  • Chapter 3. Roasting
  • Roasting
  • The roasting of the bean
  • Roasting styles
  • Blend or single origin?
  • Creating your own blend
  • Reading a coffee package
  • Purchasing specialty coffee
  • Storing coffee at home
  • Cupping
  • The flavor wheel
  • Decaffeination
  • Chapter 4. Cultivation
  • Coffee cultivation
  • Life cycle of a coffee plant
  • More about coffee growing
  • Coffee varieties
  • Seasonality ant! freshness of green coffee
  • Traditional methods of drying coffee
  • Hybrid methods of drying coffee
  • Drying: A recap
  • Cleaning, sorting, and packaging of the green coffee
  • Coffee-producing countries
  • Ethiopia
  • Kenya
  • Rwanda
  • Burundi
  • Réunion Island
  • Braril
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Bolivia
  • Peru
  • Costa Rica
  • Panama
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • El Salvador
  • Nicaragua
  • Mexico
  • Jamaica
  • Hawaii
  • Indonesia
  • India
  • Chapter 5. Appendices
  • Useful addresses & coffee events
  • Coffee shop cakes & cookies
  • Index