Coffee Life in Japan

Review

This was a super interesting book. Japan is one of the world's major coffee consumers and has a pretty unique history and culture of coffee. The author does a good job in covering both this historical and social aspects that make Japan's coffee scene unique as well as how coffee unseated tea as the caffeinated beverage of choice in Japan. I do think it could have stood to be a little expanded. The book mentions Starbucks quite often but doesn't spend much time on how western chains have fit into Japan's existing coffee landscape. The second complaint I have is that this book is clearly written by someone who has spent a lot of time in Kyoto. Most cages mentioned are from Kyoto, Tokyo does get a fair bit of time but there is very little from other parts of Japan. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in Japanese culture and history or the culture of coffee.

Consumption history1

1. Sep 20, 2016

   Completed★ 4 / 5

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