Cup of Aloha

The Kona Coffee Epic
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8248-2678-9
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Latitude 20 Book

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 laborets 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 speciality 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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Gerald Kinro was born and raised on a coffee farm in Kahalu'u, Kona. He has authored numerous articles on agriculture in local, national, and international publications.