This is a great book about coffee obsession. The writing is smart and moves quickly. The focus on three individual who share a passion for coffee is solid–though a little one sided perhaps. Toward the end it reads like an interview without the analysis and intrigue found earlier in the work.
The book is Pynchonian in the number of names dropped–it is a basic who’s who of coffee.
The tips & resources at the end of the book are good.
The section on LA was very week–focuesed on Intelli’s move into the market and barista olympians or some such sillyness–part of the general issue of outsiders writing about LA I guess, but I was hoping for more on my home town–the current center of coffee, right?
The focus on the economics of coffee was great, the traveling sections were awesome.
A very fun read that opened my eyes in a lot of ways to the inner workings of high end coffee.
David Given Schwarm 
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