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Author Kinro, Gerald Y., author

Title A Cup of Aloha : The Kona Coffee Epic / Gerald Y. Kinro
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource : 39 illus
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Establishing an Industry -- Chapter 1: Coffee Comes to Kona -- Chapter 2: The Pioneers -- Part II: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 3: The Players and Their Roles -- Chapter 4: Life on A Family Coffee Farm -- Part III: The Ride on the Coffee Cycle -- Chapter 5: Rock Bottom Road-The Dark Years -- Chapter 6: The World War II Years -- Chapter 7: Tales of Verticals -- Chapter 8; Coffee in the New State -- Chapter 9: On Heartbreak Hill-The Beginning of the End of the Nisei Era -- Chapter 10: On The Road to Pure Kona -- Chapter 11: Fight for Identity -- Part IV: A Cup of Aloha -- Chapter 12: A Cup of Aloha -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index
Summary Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawaii--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt
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Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 30, 2022)
Subject Coffee industry -- Hawaii -- Kona (District) -- History
COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / General
Coffee industry
Hawaii -- Kona (District)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0824840836
9780824840839