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New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History Kindle Edition

by Erin Meister (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This colorful history explores New York’s coffee culture from the brew’s initial arrival in the 1600s to today’s artisanal connoisseurs.
 
The coffee industry was made for New York: complex, diverse, fascinating and full of attitude. Since arriving in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the Gilded Age. Alice Foote MacDougall founded a 1920s coffeehouse empire. In the same decade, Brooklyn teenager William Black started Chock Full o’Nuts with $250 and a dream.
 
Today, third wave coffeeshops like Joe and Ninth Street Espresso offer single origin pour overs and push the limits of latte art. Through stories, interviews and photographs, author and coffee professional Erin Meister shares Gotham’s caffeinated past and explores the coffee-related reasons why the city never sleeps.
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Coffee is as vital to my ability to function as a properly running subway system. It's the fuel that keeps the engine of this absurd city running.Nobody knows this better than Erin Meister, coffee raconteur, former barista and current managing editor of Cafe Imports in Minneapolis. In her new book, New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History, she tells the story of why this city (literally) never sleeps. From the amateur coffee roasters of colonial New Amsterdam to the current third-wave coffee craze, Meister reveals through history, commentary and interviews with New York's colorful coffee community how the addictive drink became the city's most democratic and emblematic beverage.

About the Author

After a dozen years in New York City and a lifetime in the tristate area, Meister now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A coffee professional since 2000, Meister has worked as a barista, store manager, barista trainer and educator, wholesale account representative and salesperson. In her other life, she is also a professional journalist, writing about coffee (of course) but also music, film, art, food, culture and travel. She loves a good interview and would almost always rather talk about anyone but herself.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0743MF3C3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcadia Publishing; Illustrated edition (September 10, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 10, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4009 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
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    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Erin Meister (you can just call her "Meister") is both a longtime specialty-coffee professional and a professional journalist with nearly 20 years' experience in print media. She has written about coffee for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Serious Eats, Saveur.com, Food and Wine's FWx.com, Barista Magazine, Fresh Cup Magazine, Daily Coffee News, and Sprudge.com. She also writes about art, music, film, culture, and personalities for publications including Rachael Ray Every Day, Time Out NY, BUST Magazine, Chickpea, and Amplifier.

During the course of her career in specialty coffee, Meister has worked in the retail, wholesale, and importing areas of the supply chain, focusing her professional attention primarily on education, marketing, communications, and relationships.

When she's not brewing, writing about, or drinking coffee, she is also a runner, an avid reader, a writer of many letters, a bicycle commuter, and primarily a dog person. She likes other beverages, too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A page turner
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022
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This book communicates the history of coffee in New York City adeptly, humorously, and from a number of important but unexpected angles. Not just for coffee fanatics, I highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in the history of American food, as well anyone with an interest in NYC history.
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Fred Sniack
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and Engaging
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022
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Had a lot of information that I didn't know and was super helpful in learning about a specific regions history in coffee. Would definitely be interested in more books like this that did deep dives into the history of coffee within a specific city and/or region.
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Sarah Deveaux
5.0 out of 5 stars A very complete and fascinating (who knew? ) history ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2017
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A very complete and fascinating (who knew?) history of New York City Coffee. I wasn't sure i would be interested in all the details but the thorough research and Meister's smooth story telling qualities really make it interesting. For NewYorkers, non New Yorkers, coffee lovers and non coffee lovers alike.
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Karen Meister
5.0 out of 5 stars Love My Coffee!
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
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A very well-written history of coffee in NYC. The interviews, described by the author added a personal flavor to this interesting development of coffee.
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skyvue
5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling journey along a rarely traveled avenue of NYC history
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017
This delightful book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of coffee culture in the United States, in New York City lore, or both.

And plenty of readers who aren't sure they're interested in either topic will be won over by Meister's engaging and informative prose. This is coffee (and Big Apple) history for the coffee aficionado and for the rest of us, for New Yorkers and for those who live elsewhere but have an interest in a niche of the city's history that hasn't previously explored to this degree.

Meister is an accomplished coffee professional and journalist, but she's no snob. She's as interested in telling the story of the dollar-a-cup joe purchased from a doughnut cart on the street as she is in the four-dollar pour-over cup made with freshly ground, single-origin organic beans, and so will you be as you read her delightful book.
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Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will give you a buzz!
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019
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I love this book. So insightful and well written. I never knew there was so much to know about coffee in NY!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
Reviewed in Spain on August 31, 2017
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Really nice written and entertaining. Nice historical characters. Not ground breaking but a nice summary of the entangled history of coffee and New York. .
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