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A hands-on guide to understanding how coffee stimulates our senses and how to analyze these experiences to get the most out of drinking coffee, featuring nearly twenty tasting exercises and copious information to equip readers with the confidence to develop their palate and increase their enjoyment.
List of contents
List of Palate Exercises
Introduction
Chapter 1: Coffee Flavor: A Multimodal Mystery
Chapter 2: The Basic Tastes and Coffee
Chapter 3: Flavor and Coffee
Chapter 4: Developing a Coffee Tongue: Language and Palate Development
Chapter 5: Practical Tips for Tasting Coffee
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
The Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel
Coffee Taster’s Resource
Notes
About the author
Jessica Easto is a writer and editor based in Northwest Indiana. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and an MFA in fiction writing from Southern Illinois University. Her first book,
Craft Coffee: A Manual, was published in 2017 and was named a top food and drink book of the year by
The Food Network,
Wired,
Sprudge, and
Booklist. When she’s not writing about coffee, she edits books and teaches copyediting and proofreading at DePaul University in Chicago. Learn more at jessicaeasto.com and follow her on Instagram @j.easto.
Summary
A hands-on guide to understanding how coffee stimulates our senses and how to analyze these experiences to get the most out of drinking coffee, featuring nearly twenty tasting exercises and copious information to equip readers with the confidence to develop their palate and increase their enjoyment.
Foreword
- Promotion to national food and beverage publications, such as Bon Appétit, Saveur, and Food & Wine
- Promotion to national lifestyle publications, such as People, Parade, and Reader’s Digest
- Promotion to national newspaper media
- Promotion to national broadcast media
- Promotion to regional magazines, newspapers, online, and broadcast
- Promotion to national industry- and coffee-focused media, including Imbibe, Fresh Cup, CoffeeTalk, and Sprudge.com
