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Title: All About Coffee
Author: William H. Ukers
Release Date: April 4, 2009 [EBook #28500]
Language: English
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_All About
Coffee_
[Illustration]
ALL ABOUT COFFEE
[Illustration: COFFEE BRANCHES, FLOWERS, AND FRUIT
SHOWING THE BERRY IN ITS VARIOUS RIPENING STAGES FROM FLOWER TO CHERRY
(Inset: 1, green bean; 2, silver skin; 3, parchment; 4, fruit pulp.)
Painted from life by Blendon Campbell]
_ALL ABOUT
COFFEE_
_By_
_WILLIAM H. UKERS, M.A._
_Editor_
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL COMPANY
1922
COPYRIGHT 1922
BY
THE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE JOURNAL COMPANY
NEW YORK
_International Copyright Secured_
_All Rights Reserved in U.S.A. and
Foreign Countries_
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
_To My Wife_
_HELEN DE GRAFF UKERS_
PREFACE
Seventeen years ago the author of this work made his first trip abroad
to gather material for a book on coffee. Subsequently he spent a year in
travel among the coffee-producing countries. After the initial surveys,
correspondents were appointed to make researches in the principal
European libraries and museums; and this phase of the work continued
until April, 1922. Simultaneous researches were conducted in American
libraries and historical museums up to the time of the return of the
