You can't resist the smell of coffee in the morning!

TITLE: I LOVE COFFEE!
AUTHOR: SUSAN ZIMMER
PUBLISHER: ANDREWS McMEEL PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0-7407-6377-6

Yup! I'm serious, who can resist with smell of coffee, whether you like to drink it or not! His smell was fragrant and very stimulating your olfactory. Coffee is very good to neutralize odor from your nose.

This book divided in 2 parts. Besides recipe of coffee drinks, the author also give the explanation about the processing of the bean to become drinks, and the method of how to make basic latte art. She also gave the very clearly explanations about coffee-making equipment which makes this book very interesting to read!

For the first chapter, the author explained about the coffee bean itself. Like the coffee roasting chart (dark usually refer to espresso while medium usually associated with American. Very dark? French it is!). We even can roast the bean in our own home! She also gave us the recommendations for blending coffees, the grinding processing, and what happened in decaffeination processing and the methods to do it. 

On the next chapter, author discuss in more detail about the coffee machine and brewing technique. With clearly coffee machines illustration, this book will tell you the advantages and disadvantages with every type of the coffee machines. Besides the brewing methods, the author has taught  us every finished coffee beverage will differ greatly based on the following factors: the kind of roasted coffee beans and the amount and fineness of coffee grind.

Chapter 3 will give detailed explanations about espresso brewing techniques and tips, and chapter 4 will teach you how to make coffee drinks in general, with step-by-step photo and also the basic to make latte art.

Not only that, some of the coffee drinks are using alcohol, which is very nice for the variations.

This book is very recommended for they who want to learn about barista, or maybe want to know inside of barista work. By reading this book, I got encourage to make coffee just as good as the coffee drinks which I bought in coffee house.