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Where the wild coffee grows : the untold story of coffee from the cloud forests of Ethiopia to your cup /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koehler, Jeff (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
Subjects:
Coffee > History.
Coffee industry.
Ethiopia > Civilization.
COOKING / Beverages / Coffee & Tea.
HISTORY / World.
Table of Contents:
  • Coffee is our bread
  • Part one: In the forest
  • Sown by the birds
  • Island Ethiopia
  • The kingdom of Kafa
  • The last king of Kafa
  • Origins
  • Gift for king and country
  • Part two: Out of the forest
  • Coffee aethiopica
  • City of saints
  • Out of Arabia
  • Beyond waves
  • La roya
  • Impoverished
  • Part three: Back into the forest
  • Collecting
  • Ex situ
  • Geisha
  • A matter of degrees
  • In situ
  • Sacrifices.