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Coffee de Dinah Lenney

Coffee: Object Lessons

Autor Dinah Lenney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2020
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we who drink it allow ourselves in lieu of something stronger or scarier. Coffee goes to lifestyle, and character, and sensibility: where do we buy it, how do we brew it, how strong can we take it, how often, how hot, how cold? How does coffee remind us, stir us, comfort us?

But Coffee is about more than coffee: it's a personal history and a promise to self; in her confrontation with the hours (with time--big picture, little picture), Dinah Lenney faces head-on the challenges of growing older and carrying on.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501344350
ISBN-10: 1501344358
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 122 x 164 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Prologue
1. The Impossibility of the Task
2. My Mother Is Coming, My Mother Is Coming
The Questionnaire
3. Coffee-Milk
From the Coffee Diaries #1
4. My Emerging Palate
A Coffee Story (Third-Hand)
5. What We Talk About When We Talk About Coffee (Teresa Was Right)
6. Coffee in Brooklyn
7. Twenty-Two Hands...
A Coffee Story (First-Hand)
Rules Shmules (Just a Few, in No Particular Order)
These Things About Coffee Are True
From the Coffee Diaries #2
8. Serious Business
9. Shouldn't Coffee Taste Like Coffee?
(If You Say So)
10. Coffee in Paris
11. Extending the Metaphor
12. All the Things You Are
13. The Power of Suggestion
14. One More Prompt
15. Am I Blue
From the Coffee Diaries #3
16. A Word About Tea
A Riddle (Excellent Advertising)
From the Coffee Diaries #4
17. Reunion
Coffee and My Father
From the Coffee Diaries #5
From the Coffee Diaries #6
18. Coffee and Catastrophe
From the Coffee Diaries #7
19. Coffee in Echo Park
20. Coffee and the Jews
Coffee and Dad
21. The Widow
22. Altered States
From the Coffee Diaries #8
From the Coffee Diaries #9
From the Coffee Diaries #10
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
My Coffee Book Fort (Further Reading)
Index

Recenzii

Lenney's book, part of the publisher's Object Lessons series about the 'hidden lives of ordinary things,' is a fluid, involving memoir of her experience of coffee, a pleasurable tour of her memories, reflections, and research on the topic . The result is a winning combination of enthusiasm and naïveté, which allows the reader to explore recent research about coffee and its physiological effects, the more esoteric corners of coffee connoisseurship and fandom, and the cultural attitudes to coffee shown by her friends and family without ever feeling lectured ... This deft memoir-cum-meditation is as savory and stimulating as its subject.
Where Lenney really shines. is in her ability to interweave environmental, sociopolitical, and cultural concerns with reflections on time, womanhood, and family. Her lyrical prose is as invigorating as a strong jolt of caffeine.
True to its subject, this book is a real stimulant: the prose is caffeinated, zany yet serene and habit-forming. Chock full of odd facts, poignant autobiographical vignettes, comic touches, and wistful philosophical insights, it is a delicious brew, all in all, and as fine and accomplished an example of that contemporary form, the extended mosaic essay, as we are likely to encounter.
If there's ever been a more perfect pairing of author and subject matter, I can't recall it. Dinah Lenney was meant to write this book. I could say this is not just a book about coffee, but we knew that already. So what I will say is that it's about all that coffee represents; being awake, being cozy, being able to savor what's in your cup as well as what's in your life. Lenney's mastery of these lessons comes from her mastery of the fleeting moment, the quiet revelation, the unlikely holiness of even the most ordinary objects and everyday rituals. She's more than an observer of the world in her midst, she's a precise and careful excavator of the ground beneath her feet. How lucky we are to dig alongside her.
An expert brew of research, memoir, and introspection, this lovely and satisfying book delivers many pleasures also found in a perfect cup of espresso. Reading Dinah Lenney, one's brain and heart feel quickened. Lenney's writing throughout is moving, intimate, eager, graceful, discerning, tender. The generosity of her self-examining candor and the warmth with which she admits us into her life play off beautifully against her natural reporter's curiosity. And happily, the salutary effects of Lenney's excellent prose last much longer than the buzz of mere caffeine.
Dinah Lenney is a treasure. The acuity of her eye, the precision of her voice: Reading Coffee is like savoring the notes, the nuances, of a finely brewed cup. Energizing and engaging, full of deft and unexpected narrative turns, this book reminds us of the depths inherent in the simplest pleasures, as well as the ongoing relationships and daily interactions that add up to a life.
Reading Dinah Lenney's frenetic ditty on coffee mimics the thing itself: one tries to quit it, but can't; one tries to put it down, only to pick it up again for stimulus, for agitation, for one more lasting epiphany!