PositiveThe New York Times... not until I read all 520 pages of Mark Pendergrast\'s encyclopedic coffee epic did I realize how powerful the coffee image has been even beyond its caffeine component ... With wit and humor, Pendergrast has served up a rich blend of anecdote, character study, market analysis and social history. And while the reader sometimes needs a caffeine jolt when too much raw data and too little structuring clog the brew, still everything you ought to know about coffee is here: even how to make it.
