After pouring over dozens of titles and drinking the best coffee around, we found the best books about coffee that will teach you something new and interesting about your favorite drink, whether you’re a simple fan or a highly trained barista. Complete with history, tutorials, and recipes, the do-it-all guide is all about coffee as it exists today as an artisan product. If you want to learn how to make great coffee the scientific way, you should read Everything But Espresso.

Yes, there’s a poem titled Coffee in the anthology but the entire scope complements a strong black coffee, as Bukowski comments on neighborhood cats, his youth, and more with over 130 quick-hit poems, all at once tender and rough, as coffee should be. Coffee fortifies the Stomach and Brain, promotes Digestion, allays the Head-ach, suppresses the Fumes caused by Wine, and other spirituous Liquors; promotes Urine and Womens Terms, opens some Peoples Bodies, makes the memory and Fancy more quick, and People brisk that drink it: This last Effect has been observed, say they, by the Shepherds of Africa, who took Notice, that before Coffee was used, and that their Sheep fed upon this Kind of Pulse, that they skipped about strangely. He is also selling coffee equipment from Kinto (Japan) and Moccamaster (Holland) as well as handmade essential oil candles created in Leicester and The Coffee Obsessive t-shirts and tote bags that were hand screen printed in the city. Caffè Florian was a meeting place for political radicals before the French Revolution, and later for Venetian patriots during the Venetian Revolution of 1848.While we consider these the best books about coffee, there are many others that can help you gain a better appreciation for coffee and better understand the long journey of your favorite bean. Ernesto Valente’s stainless-steel machine utilised modern technical innovations to move the burden of espresso-making from the barista to the machine. The Birth of Coffee uses beautiful, two-toned photographs, stained with actual coffee, to take you deeper into the world and culture of the people whose labor provides the source material for your favorite beverage. While a country’s Starbucks may offer specialty drinks based on location and local tastes, there is usually a core menu of classic American Starbucks coffee drinks.

The second half is full of recipes, which I love and include flavor combinations I wouldn't have thought of on my own. The Ottoman Empire recognised that coffee’s rich flavor and energising properties would make it a profitable industry, and increased cultivation in Yemen for the European market. But if you feel like sipping on something else, I recommend the house ginger beer, which offers the perfect amount of spice and sweetness. In 1901, Ukers was editor of The Spice Mill, which was the magazine for the Jabez Burns coffee company. The most accurately titled book on this list, Coffee Obsession is the most cost-efficient coffee codex that covers the craft from A to Z.Marie Antoinette loved it enough that she hired her own personal chocolate maker and often drank it in the morning. HDBs come in varying shapes, sizes and designs, but they have in common a community centre where people can socialise, and often there are retail spaces on site too, as is the case with Nylon. Nowadays, you can experience the true Australian coffee in most metropolitan cities including London, Paris, or New York.