“We” are a book lover/hoarder and a Francophone/librarian-on-hold who like to both read about and enjoy a coffee (for the former), a cup of tea (for the latter) and something stiffer at day’s end. The book part lead us to search out texts about the drinks we enjoy. We find books from other cultures and other times that look interesting but are not written in English. Each of these books is a potential treasure chest of information that has been locked away from us and other fans of drink culture behind the wall of another language. We plan to make these books accessible to an English-speaking audience.
Things, People, and Places We Love
Café Kreyol project to provide blight resistant coffee plants to Haitian farmers – reforest, decrease CO2, drink coffee
US League of Tea Growers, a group of amateur and professional tea growers in the US. Archived talks on various aspects of growing and producing tea. Low annual membership dues.
US Tea Experience, courses on tea production by professional presenters. This is the place if you really want to know how tea is made. Courses are not free.
Online collection of Cocktail books, free to browse and download
A modern translation of a 1920s French Cocktail guide. Props to these guys for putting this out!
Another neat translation project – a Kickstarter to publish a new English edition of pioneering film maker George Méliès autobiography. The Brown Dog is in-
What’s a zine? We’ve been asked that question several times while we put our first project together- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine
Distributors of Zines we have enjoyed:
scanned and free Zines on Archive.org
And one classic zine – Processed World– free and online now!
The National Library of France – source of full PDF versions of texts we have worked with plus a vast collection of other items. French, English and Spanish language sites are available. Nice source to find obscure book in addition to Google Books
Bookfinder – the first stop to look for new, used and out of print books and other printed material from book dealers around the globe. (owned by Amazon)