All About Coffee【電子書籍】[ William H. Ukers ]

＜p＞Civilization in its onward march has produced only three important non-alcoholic beveragesーthe extract of the tea plant, the extract of the cocoa bean, and the extract of the coffee bean. Leaves and beansーthese are the vegetable sources of the world's favorite non-alcoholic table-beverages. Of the two, the tea leaves lead in total amount consumed; the coffee beans are second; and the cocoa beans are a distant third, although advancing steadily. But in international commerce the coffee beans occupy a far more important position than either of the Others, being imported into non-producing countries to twice the extent of the tea leaves. All three enjoy a world-wide consumption, although not to the same extent in every nation; but where either the coffee bean or the tea leaf has established itself in a given country, the Other gets comparatively little attention, and usually has great difficulty in making any advance. The cocoa bean, on the Other hand, has not risen to the position of ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る