Tasting Coffee

By Kenneth Liberman,

Book cover of Tasting Coffee: An Inquiry into Objectivity

Book description

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

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1 author picked Tasting Coffee as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book because it captures the experience of coffee tasting as it really happens and explores it from a social science perspective. What I love most about the book, though, is how much I disagree with some of its content; it is wonderful to love someone’s perspective and effort without always seeing eye to eye. Reader beware: the first part of the book is heavily academic, but it clears out and eventually becomes easy reading.

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