CHAPTER XVIII

COFFEE MAKING IN THE HOME

The importance of correct grinding and brewing—Drip or filter coffee—Boiled or steeped coffee—Percolated coffee—The perfect cup of coffee—Some coffee recipes Page 233

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS

_Facing page_ Near view of berries of Coffea arabica (frontispiece) iii Legendary discovery of the coffee drink 1 First advertisement for coffee 6 A coffee house in the time of Charles II 10 Merchants Coffee House in New York 14 Coffea arabica flower and fruit 17 Green and roasted Bogota coffee 25 800,000 coffee trees in bearing 31 Coffee nursery under a bamboo roof 37 Efficient weeding and harrowing at Ribeirao Preto 38 Picking coffee on a well-kept fazenda 43 Coffee drying ground, Sao Paulo 50 Loading coffee aboard ship at Santos 61 Weighing and sacking coffee at Santos 62 Coffee pit in the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange 69 Samples of typical roasted coffee beans 81, 86, 90, 98 Modern gas coffee-roasting plant 111 Dumping the roast in a coal roasting plant 118 Some leading trade-marked coffee containers 139 Luhrs, of Poughkeepsie, features freshly roasted coffee in his window 155 Johnson of Red Oak roasts before the customer 162 One of the coffee kitchens of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel 175 Day and night coffee room of the Rice Hotel, Houston 184 Advertising copy of the Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Committee 219 Drawing upon history for social-intercourse atmosphere 224 A prize-winning coffee window display 228 Coffee-making devices used in United States 233 Brewing the guest’s coffee in a Mohammedan home 236 Showing how grinding breaks open the oil cells 242

[Illustration: LEGENDARY DISCOVERY OF THE COFFEE DRINK:

KALDI AND HIS DANCING GOATS

From a drawing by a modern French artist]