New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History

by Erin Meister

This colorful history explores New York’s coffee culture from the brew’s initial arrival in the 1600s to today’s artisanal connoisseurs.   The coffee industry was made for New complex, diverse, fascinating and full of attitude. Since arriving in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, coffee held patriotic significance during wartime, fueled industrial revolution and transformed the city's foodways. The New York Coffee Exchange opened tumultuously in the Gilded Age. 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.   Today, third wave coffeeshops like Joe and Ninth Street Espresso offer single origin pour overs and push the limits of latte art. Through stories, interviews and photographs, author and coffee professional Erin Meister shares Gotham’s caffeinated past and explores the coffee-related reasons why the city never sleeps.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

147 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2018

Reviews

[Eden Gills Konnovitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love coffee more than most things, and I love NYC more than most places. After a recent trip to the big apple, indulging in as much dirty bean water as my body could hold, I got so interested in history of how coffee became such an iconic part of New York’s culture. Enter, this book.

This book is the perfect, witty, smart telling of exactly where coffee got its start in NYC and how it shaped the culture and everything in between. A marvelous read for anyone who has an interest in these delicious caffeinated beans !!

[Katharine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, simple, and highly focused on the New York coffee experience. Fun to read!

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A small little book with an interesting take on New York and coffee. It was very entertaining.

[Aiden Feltkamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my new favorites in the historical nonfiction genre! It was such a fun & informative read. The author’s passion and experience are obvious. I learned so much.

[James Burgess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Morning

It was a nice and Interesting story, how Coffee became so popular during the Prohibition period, prelude the Great Depression

[Tatiaana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super specialized little niche but if you’re into coffee and/or NYC history, this little gem is for you.