A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic

A Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic
ISBN-10
0824826787
ISBN-13
9780824826789
Category
Social Science
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2003-03-31
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Author
Gerald Y. Kinro

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.

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