Archive for the ‘All about Coffee’ Category
A COFFEE CHRONOLOGY
_Giving dates and events of historical interest in legend, travel,
literature, cultivation, plantation treatment, trading, and in the
preparation and use of coffee from the earliest time to the
present_
PREPARATION OF THE UNIVERSAL BEVERAGE
_The evolution of grinding and brewing methods–Coffee was first a
food, then a wine, a medicine, a devotional refreshment, a
confection, and finally a beverage–Brewing by boiling, infusion,
percolation, and filtration–Coffee making in Europe in the
nineteenth century–Early coffee making in the United
States–Latest developments in better coffee making–Various
aspects of scientific coffee brewing–Advice to coffee lovers on
how to buy coffee, and how to make it in perfection_
WORLD’S COFFEE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
_How coffee is roasted, prepared, and served in all the leading
civilized countries–The Arabian coffee ceremony–The present-day
coffee houses of Turkey–Twentieth-century improvements in Europe
and the United States_
THE EVOLUTION OF COFFEE APPARATUS
_Showing the development of coffee-roasting, coffee-grinding,
coffee-making, and coffee-serving devices from the earliest time to
the present day–The original coffee grinder, the first coffee
roaster, and the first coffee pot–The original French drip pot,
the De Belloy percolator–Count Rumford’s improvement–How the
commercial coffee roaster was developed–The evolution of
filtration devices–The old Carter “pull-out” roaster–Trade
customs in New York and St. Louis in the sixties and seventies–The
story of the evolution of the Burns roaster–How the gas roaster
was developed in France, Great Britain, and the United States_
COFFEE IN RELATION TO THE FINE ARTS
_How coffee and coffee drinking have been celebrated in painting,
engraving, sculpture, caricature, lithography, and music–Epics,
rhapsodies, and cantatas in praise of coffee–Beautiful specimens
of the art of the potter and the silversmith as shown in the coffee
service of various periods in the world’s history–Some historical
relics_
A HISTORY OF COFFEE IN LITERATURE
_The romance of coffee, and its influence on the discourse, poetry,
history, drama, philosophic writing, and fiction of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries and on the writers of today–Coffee quips
and anecdotes_
SOME BIG MEN AND NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
_B.G. Arnold, the first, and Hermann Sielcken, the last of the
American “coffee kings”–John Arbuckle, the original package-coffee
man–Jabez Burns, the man who revolutionized the roasted coffee
business by his contributions as inventor, manufacturer, and
writer–Coffee-trade booms and panics–Brazil’s first valorization
enterprise–War-time government control of coffee–The story of
soluble coffee_