Tasting Coffee An Inquiry Into Objectivity - Kenneth Liberman

Draws Upon The Situated Work Of Professional Coffee Tasters In Over A Dozen Countries To Shed Light On The Methods We Use To Convert Subjective Experience Into Objective Knowledge.winner Of The 2023 Distinguished Book Award Presented By The Ethnomethodology And Conversation Analysis Section Of The American Sociological Association At Once Ethnographic And Phenomenological, Tasting Coffee Investigates The Global Chain Of Coffee Production From Seed To Cup, Stopping At Every Stage Along The Way To Describe The Tasting Practices Of Each Stakeholder Purveying Coffee. The Ethnomethodological Care Of These Descriptions Derives From An Attunement To Just How These Stakeholders Discover And Describe The Flavors Of Coffee And How They Convert Subjective Experience Into Objective Knowledge. The Methods And Protocols Of Sensory Science Are Also Examined And Assessed In Their Lived Details, Making This Study Also A Contribution To The Sociology Of Science.