Coffee culture : local experiences, global connections / / Catherine M. Tucker

• Autore: Tucker Catherine M.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 pages)
• Disciplina: 394.1/2; 394.12
• Soggetto topico: Coffee - Social aspects; Coffee - History; Coffee - Health aspects; Coffee industry - Social aspects
• Note generali: First edition published 2011 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Coffee culture, social life, and global history -- pt. II. Accolades and antipathies : coffee controversies through time -- pt. III. Coffee production and processing -- pt. IV. Markets and the modern world system.
• Sommario/riassunto: Coffee Culture: Local experiences, Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people; (2) a product with a dramatic history; (3) a beverage with multiple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food, addiction, flavouring, and confection); (4) an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; (5) a crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; (6) a health risk and a health food; and (7) a focus of alternative trade efforts. This book presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together, from the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coffee culture
• ISBN: 1-315-67879-9; 1-317-39225-6; 1-317-39224-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162823703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology.