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 ...
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_
HOW GREEN COFFEES ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD
_Buying coffee in the producing countries–Transporting coffee to
the consuming markets–Some record coffee cargoes shipped to the
United States–Transport over seas–Java coffee “ex-sailing
vessels”–Handling coffee at New York, New Orleans, and San
Francisco–The coffee exchanges of Europe and the United
States–Commission men and brokers–Trade and exchange contracts
for delivery–Important rulings affecting coffee trading–Some well
known green coffee marks_
THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF COFFEE
_A statistical study of world production of coffee by
countries–Per capita figures of the leading consuming
countries–Coffee-consumption figures compared with tea-consumption
figures in the United States and the United Kingdom–Three
centuries of coffee trading–Coffee drinking in the United States,
past and present–Reviewing the 1921 trade in the United States_
PREPARING GREEN COFFEE FOR MARKET
_Early Arabian methods of preparation–How primitive devices were
replaced by modern methods–A chronological story of the
development of scientific plantation machinery, and the part played
by British and American inventors–The marvelous coffee package,
one of the most ingenious in all nature–How coffee is
harvested–Picking–Preparation by the dry and the wet
methods–Pulping–Fermentation and washing–Drying–Hulling; or
peeling, and polishing–Sizing, or grading–Preparation methods of
different countries_
CULTIVATION OF THE COFFEE PLANT
_The early days of coffee culture in Abyssinia and Arabia–Coffee
cultivation in general–Soil, climate, rainfall, altitude,
propagation, preparing the plantation, shade and wind breaks,
fertilizing, pruning, catch crops, pests, and diseases–How coffee
is grown around the world–Cultivation in all the principal
producing countries_
THE COMMERCIAL COFFEES OF THE WORLD
_The geographical distribution of the coffees grown in North
America, Central America, South America, the West India Islands,
Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the East Indies–A
statistical study of the distribution of the principal kinds–A
commercial coffee chart of the world’s leading growths, with market
names and general trade characteristics_
PHARMACOLOGY OF THE COFFEE DRINK
_General physiological action–Effect on children–Effect on
longevity–Behavior in the alimentary régime–Place in
dietary–Action on bacteria–Use in medicine–Physiological action
of “caffetannic acid”–Of caffeol–Of caffein–Effect of caffein on
mental and motor efficiency–Conclusions_
THE CHEMISTRY OF THE COFFEE BEAN
_Chemistry of the preparation and treatment of the green
bean–Artificial aging–Renovating damaged
coffees–Extracts–”Caffetannic acid”–Caffein, caffein-free
coffee–Caffeol–Fats and oils–Carbohydrates–Roasting–Scientific
aspects of grinding and packaging–The coffee brew–Soluble
coffee–Adulterants and substitutes–Official methods of analysis_