Hello, I would like to write about my book again.
The book I had been reading is, as I mentioned earlier in this blog, Uncommon Ground ~The History Of Coffeee and How It Transformed Our World~. It was published in 1999. In my presentation, I introduced about the author of the book who is Mark Penergrast. He is from Atlanta Georgia, and earned a Bachelor of Art degree in English Literature from Harvard College. Later, he attended Simmons College in Boston and obtained a Master of Arts degree in Library Science. He worked as an academic librarian and free-lance writer until he became a full-time writer. He decided to write this book because he was personally interested in deceptively narrow topics that in fact have figured in world history for millennia. Coffee has a long history starting from its discovery on an ancient Ethiopian hillside to its role as millenniall elixier in the Age of Starbucks. Coffee has dominated and molded the economies, politics, and social structures of entire countries. In his book, he mentions not only about the start of coffee, but also about Coffee Crisis that occured in 2002, which caused global prices to plummet, and at the same time, to the rise of Fair Trade movement.
The attractive aspect of this book is that this book is interesting for those who like coffee, like me. On the other hand, I think it is a boring book for those who aren't since it doesn't have many pictures and images inside, and mostly it is the explanation of coffee. I became well selective of coffee after reading this book. Since I work in Starbucks, I learned a lot about the taste of coffee, its origin, where it was grew, and so on, and now I am looing forward to sharing these knowledge to people who came to Starbucks as costomers.
You had a very good motivation for reading _Uncommon Grounds_. I hope you were able to find some of its content worth discussing with customers. I imagine that some of what the book had to say was critical of the role that international coffee shops such as Starbucks play in setting prices of coffee and making it difficult for small coffee growers to make a living.
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