New York City Coffee

New York City Coffee

A Caffeinated History

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Publication Date: 31st July 2017

New York runs on coffee. Read of coffee's past in the city and how it wove its way into the everyday.

The coffee industry was made for New York: complex, diverse, fascinating and with plenty of attitude. Since arriving in the 1600s, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the 1880s. Alice Foote MacDougall founded a 1920s coffeehouse empire. In the same decade, Brooklyn teenager William Black started Chock Full o'Nuts with $250 and a dream. Third waver... Read More

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New York runs on coffee. Read of coffee's past in the city and how it wove its way into the everyday.

The coffee industry was made for New York: complex, diverse, fascinating and with plenty of attitude. Since arriving in the 1600s, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the 1880s. Alice Foote MacDougall founded a 1920s coffeehouse empire. In the same decade, Brooklyn teenager William Black started Chock Full o'Nuts with $250 and a dream. Third waver... Read More

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New York runs on coffee. Read of coffee's past in the city and how it wove its way into the everyday.

The coffee industry was made for New York: complex, diverse, fascinating and with plenty of attitude. Since arriving in the 1600s, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the 1880s. Alice Foote MacDougall founded a 1920s coffeehouse empire. In the same decade, Brooklyn teenager William Black started Chock Full o'Nuts with $250 and a dream. Third wavers Ninth Street Espresso and Joe made the latest latte craze mainstream. Through stories, interviews and photographs, coffee professional and Tristate native Erin Meister shares Gotham's caffeinated past and explores the coffee-related reasons why the city never sleeps.

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  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: American Palate
  • Publication Date: 31st July 2017
  • State: New York
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467136006
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Investments & Securities / Commodities / General
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Reviews

Coffee is as vital to my ability to function as a properly running subway system. It's the fuel that keeps the engine of this absurd city running.Nobody knows this better than Erin Meister, coffee raconteur, former barista and current managing editor of Cafe Imports in Minneapolis. In her new book, New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History, she tells the story of why this city (literally) never sleeps. From the amateur coffee roasters of colonial New Amsterdam to the current third-wave coffee craze, Meister reveals through history, commentary and interviews with New York's colorful coffee community how the addictive drink became the city's most democratic and emblematic beverage.

New York runs on coffee. Read of coffee's past in the city and how it wove its way into the everyday.

The coffee industry was made for New York: complex, diverse, fascinating and with plenty of attitude. Since arriving in the 1600s, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the 1880s. Alice Foote MacDougall founded a 1920s coffeehouse empire. In the same decade, Brooklyn teenager William Black started Chock Full o'Nuts with $250 and a dream. Third wavers Ninth Street Espresso and Joe made the latest latte craze mainstream. Through stories, interviews and photographs, coffee professional and Tristate native Erin Meister shares Gotham's caffeinated past and explores the coffee-related reasons why the city never sleeps.

  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: American Palate
  • Publication Date: 31st July 2017
  • State: New York
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467136006
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Investments & Securities / Commodities / General
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Coffee is as vital to my ability to function as a properly running subway system. It's the fuel that keeps the engine of this absurd city running.Nobody knows this better than Erin Meister, coffee raconteur, former barista and current managing editor of Cafe Imports in Minneapolis. In her new book, New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History, she tells the story of why this city (literally) never sleeps. From the amateur coffee roasters of colonial New Amsterdam to the current third-wave coffee craze, Meister reveals through history, commentary and interviews with New York's colorful coffee community how the addictive drink became the city's most democratic and emblematic beverage.