Isbn: 9780824826789 - cup of aloha: the kona coffee epic (latitude 20 book) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. 2003. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborets who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawai'i - from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive speciality coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Kona is one of the world s premium coffees. Its small-scale cultivation on family farms means that it is especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. This text offers a portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners and labourers who struggled to .