Coffee / Dinah Lenney.
- Lenney, Dinah
- Date:
- 2020
- Books
About this work
Description
"An intimate look at how coffee comforts and inspires and restores-how it works against time, with time, in time, to wake us up, to slow us down, to let us savor, ponder, prepare, reach out, remember, resolve, and dream."--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Physical description
xiv, 167 pages ; 17 cm.
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Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue -- 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 (Theresa was right) -- 6. Coffee in Brooklyn -- 7. Twenty-two hands ... ; A coffee story (first-hand) ; Rules shmules (just a few, in not 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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDFWP /LENOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781501344350
- 1501344358