De Amerikaans-Jemenitische Mokhtar Alkhanshali haalt koffie uit een land in oorlog
Auteur Dave Eggers schreef er een boek over
ARTIKELHet nieuwe non-fictieboek van Dave Eggers heet De monnik van Mokka. Het gaat over Mokhtar Alkhanshali (29), geboren en getogen in San Francisco. Zijn droom: groot worden met exquise koffie uit het land van zijn ouders, Jemen. Waarom wil een mens koffie halen uit een land in oorlog?
Door: Sara Berkeljon 6 maart 2018, 20:14
fransg schreef: do 25 jan 2018, 10:48 Boekbespreking over de mokkamonnik:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/book ... mokha.html
Life snapped into focus for Alkhanshali when he learned that coffee was originally cultivated in Yemen, some 500 years ago. Today, however, Yemeni coffee is regarded as some of the worst in the world. It became Alkhanshali’s obsession to restore its honor — never mind that he was broke, knew nothing about coffee and, frankly, didn’t much care for the taste. Never mind Yemen’s seething civil war.
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Before you can say Horatio Alger, Alkhanshali was assessing coffee crops in Yemen with seasoned disdain and wearing, as you do, a garland of grenades that signaled his “willingness to take any argument to its logical conclusion.” His mission culminated in the most harrowing return journey this side of the “Odyssey” — but time and time again, he talked himself out of trouble; he has a preternatural gift for persuading others to join his cause.
In “The Monk of Mokha,” he moves lightly between story and analysis, and between brisk histories of Yemeni immigration to America; gentrifying San Francisco; coffee cultivation (“quite possibly the most complex journey from farm to consumption of any foodstuff known to humankind”); and the saints and thieves who dispersed the beans around the world.
In een eerdere recensie stond al dat je, als je de hoofdpersoon in het boek van Eggers als held wil zien, wel bereid moet zijn voorbij wat schimmige feiten te kijken maar de schimmigheid komt nu volop in de schijnwerpers.The suit says the plaintiffs were desperate to sell the allegedly fraudulently undervalued coffee and entered into negotiations with T&H Imports, selling 862 kilograms of coffee for $50,000, or $58 per kilogram.
“Immediately thereafter T&H Computers sold the same coffee to Port of Mocha [sic.] for $51,000, taking a $1,000 commission for its part in the fraud scheme,” the suit states. “On May 17, 2016, Port of Mokha sold under its own brand 390 kilograms of the fraudulently obtained Mocha Mill coffee to Blue Bottle for $135 per kilogram. The coffee was also sold for a similar price to Coutume, and other high-end distributors.”
fransg schreef: di 06 mar 2018, 21:37 Nu ook in de Volkskrant:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/4578344
Schermafbeelding 2018-03-06 om 21.36.32.pngDe Amerikaans-Jemenitische Mokhtar Alkhanshali haalt koffie uit een land in oorlog
Auteur Dave Eggers schreef er een boek over
ARTIKELHet nieuwe non-fictieboek van Dave Eggers heet De monnik van Mokka. Het gaat over Mokhtar Alkhanshali (29), geboren en getogen in San Francisco. Zijn droom: groot worden met exquise koffie uit het land van zijn ouders, Jemen. Waarom wil een mens koffie halen uit een land in oorlog?
Door: Sara Berkeljon 6 maart 2018, 20:14
fransg schreef: do 25 jan 2018, 10:48 Boekbespreking over de mokkamonnik:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/book ... mokha.html
Life snapped into focus for Alkhanshali when he learned that coffee was originally cultivated in Yemen, some 500 years ago. Today, however, Yemeni coffee is regarded as some of the worst in the world. It became Alkhanshali’s obsession to restore its honor — never mind that he was broke, knew nothing about coffee and, frankly, didn’t much care for the taste. Never mind Yemen’s seething civil war.
Continue reading the main story
Before you can say Horatio Alger, Alkhanshali was assessing coffee crops in Yemen with seasoned disdain and wearing, as you do, a garland of grenades that signaled his “willingness to take any argument to its logical conclusion.” His mission culminated in the most harrowing return journey this side of the “Odyssey” — but time and time again, he talked himself out of trouble; he has a preternatural gift for persuading others to join his cause.
In “The Monk of Mokha,” he moves lightly between story and analysis, and between brisk histories of Yemeni immigration to America; gentrifying San Francisco; coffee cultivation (“quite possibly the most complex journey from farm to consumption of any foodstuff known to humankind”); and the saints and thieves who dispersed the beans around the world.
), dan heb je 7 shots voor 18,50 euro per kop koffie.
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