Espresso Quick Reference Guide

By Phillip Janssen

Book Overview

This revised, updated edition includes over 1,000 espresso and Italian soda recipes. Espresso Quick Reference Guide also includes a complete ingredient index, as well as endless coffee and other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096435473X
• ISBN13: 9780964354739
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Eightball Books
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Authoritative book, especially for those in coffee business

I'm not sure why the first reviewer was so disgruntled with this book. I am a long time coffee lover and brewer. I have served many kinds of coffee/espresso drinks to many people and recieved rave reviews. This book is highly entertaining. The Author teaches you about the "coffee culture" of Seattle and fills page after page with tidbits of trivia that coffee fans will find thoroughly entertaining. I am an avid reader, but also very selective and had no trouble reading this book straight through. For those of you who've stood at the coffee bar and asked,"What's the difference between a cappuccino and a macchiato?" this book will clear the air. He diagrams and plainly explains the exact makeup of each titled coffee drink. He even covers techniques for "decorating" the coffee before you serve it. There is a chapter of 123 pages of nothing but espresso drink recipes (incorporating liquers and flavored syrups) and Italian sodas. Each are listed alphabetically by their name (and some very creative ones, I might add). Also, each page contains between 7 and 8 recipes. If you love to try new things, this will give you tons of ideas. The next part of the book is filled with more creative ideas, brewing tips, trivia of coffee and how it's taken throughout the world and information on brewing with a variety of different private and commercial machines. Altogether, this is an excellent book. I believe it deserves more than 5 stars, but that's all they gave me.

Extemely insightful and complete.

This book is all you ever wanted to know about espresso and more. From bean selection to recipes, this book is complete from A-Z. A must have for all coffee lovers.