The Joy of Coffee: the Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying by Barbara Hurd

The Joy of Coffee: the Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying by Barbara Hurd

In this revised and updated edition of the most authoritative guide to coffee, Corby Kummer travels the country and the world to give you all the latest information you need to make a great cup at home: * The best beans and how to buy and store them * The grinder that's essential for great coffee * Incisive reports on brewing and espresso-making equipment and tips on how to get the best from them, with photographs of current models * A complete, up-to-date list of sources for beans, equipment and Fair Trade organizations

Corby Kummer, senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly, is one of the country's most regarded culinary journalists. His coffee series from 1990, on which this book is based, received a National Magazine Award nomination. Kummer is a restaurant critic for New York Magazine and writes for Martha Stewart Living, Self, the New York Times Magazine, Travel-Holiday, and Food & Wine. He is a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.