{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-coffee-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Coffee (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Coffee is a large-format coffee table book about coffee, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. It follows coffee from cherry to cup: the plant, the farm, the harvest, the roast, the brew and the old coffeehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with the coffee plant: a branch crowded with small white star-shaped flowers, a honeybee at the blossom, cherries ripening from green through yellow and orange to crimson, and a cherry cut open to show its two pale seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the harvest: a woven basket brimming with red cherries, cherries sunk in a tank of clear water with a few afloat, beans raked into long furrows on a drying yard, whole cherries drying on raised mesh tables, beans glistening with a sticky amber coat of fruit pulp, and stacks of plain burlap sacks in an old warehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen roasting and grinding: an old roasting machine of dark iron in a brick-walled room, beans roasting in an iron pan over charcoal, a ring of small heaps running from raw green to nearly black, an old wooden box mill, and a brass Turkish mill beside coffee as fine as powder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen brewing: a white pour-over cone over a glass carafe, a glass siphon above a spirit lamp, a French press, a moka pot over a low blue flame, a copper cezve in a tray of hot sand, a black clay jebena on a straw ring, a brass dallah with a beaked spout, a tall slow-drip tower, and an enamel percolator over a campfire by a lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the cup: a latte with a leaf-shaped rosetta, a cappuccino dusted with cocoa, Turkish coffee with rose-pink Turkish delight, iced coffee swirled with milk, an affogato, a bowl of cafe au lait beside a croissant, and an Irish coffee by a rain-streaked window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, still lifes and close studies: a heap of glossy roasted beans, a cup on a rainy windowsill, the dried ring of a spilled drop on pale marble, a cup among cardamom, cinnamon and star anise, and the crema of an espresso seen from above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book; none is a recipe. They are about coffee rather than about the pictures: what brings a coffee farm into flower all at once, why coffee beans darken as they roast, who registered a paper coffee filter in 1908, and how long cold brew steeps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68148263223600,"sku":"9671456004471","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004471.jpg?v=1792628429","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-coffee-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}