Kenneth Davids

Kenneth Davids has observed, documented, described and participated in the specialty coffee movement continuously since its inception over forty years ago. He has published three books on coffee: Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing & Enjoying (over 250,000 copies sold in five U.S. editions plus editions in Great Britain and Japan), Espresso: Ultimate Coffee (nominated for a James Beard award), and Home Coffee Roasting: Romance & Revival (editions in English, Chinese and Korean). For the past seventeen years his influential coffee reviews and articles have appeared monthly on the prize-winning worldwide web publication www.CoffeeReview.com, and he has written for most major industry print magazines, including an ongoing column in Roast Magazine. His workshops and seminars on coffee sourcing, evaluation and communication have been featured at professional coffee meetings on six continents. He is Emeritus Professor of Critical Studies at the California College of Arts in San Francisco.