Chapter XVIII: Coffee Making in the Home

The importance of correct grinding and brewing—Drip or filter
coffee—Boiled or steeped coffee—Percolated coffee—The
perfect cup of coffee—Some coffee recipes Page 233

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS

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Near view of berries of Coffea arabica (frontispiece) iii
Legendary discovery of the coffee drink 1
First advertisement for coffee 6
A coffee house in the time of Charles II 10
Merchants Coffee House in New York 14
Coffea arabica flower and fruit 17
Green and roasted Bogota coffee 25
800,000 coffee trees in bearing 31
Coffee nursery under a bamboo roof 37
Efficient weeding and harrowing at Ribeirao Preto 38
Picking coffee on a well-kept fazenda 43
Coffee drying ground, Sao Paulo 50
Loading coffee aboard ship at Santos 61
Weighing and sacking coffee at Santos 62
Coffee pit in the New York Coffee & Sugar
Exchange 69
Samples of typical roasted coffee beans 81, 86, 90, 98
Modern gas coffee-roasting plant 111
Dumping the roast in a coal roasting plant 118
Some leading trade-marked coffee containers 139
Luhrs, of Poughkeepsie, features freshly roasted
coffee in his window 155
Johnson of Red Oak roasts before the customer 162
One of the coffee kitchens of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel 175
Day and night coffee room of the Rice Hotel, Houston 184
Advertising copy of the Joint Coffee Trade Publicity
Committee 219
Drawing upon history for social-intercourse atmosphere 224
A prize-winning coffee window display 228
Coffee-making devices used in United States 233
Brewing the guest’s coffee in a Mohammedan home 236
Showing how grinding breaks open the oil cells 242

KALDI AND HIS DANCING GOATS

From a drawing by a modern French artist]