Coffee / Dinah Lenney.

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

xiv, 167 pages ; 17 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.