| A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic Contributor(s): Kinro, Gerald Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0824826787 ISBN-13: 9780824826789 Publisher: Latitude 20 OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawai'i -- from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 338.173 |
| LCCN: 2003040295 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.04" W x 8.16" (0.55 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawaii--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt. |