 Image via Wikipedia Well, some people are referring to the battle starting up between Starbucks – with its new ‘pairings’ of a latte or tall coffee plus some form of pastry item (surely not one that is selling poorly that it is trying to offload?) for $3.95 – and Caribou Coffee with a temporary price cut [...]  Image via Wikipedia Angola, one of the many war-battered central African countries, is to invest $150 million back into its own coffee producing industry. In the sixties and seventies Angola was one of the larger coffee producers in Africa, exporting up to 200,000 tonnes of coffee per year. Three years ago there was only one coffee [...]  Image via Wikipedia By now you have probably encountered the term ’shade-grown’ coffee, even at Starbucks. So what is it and why should you care? Does coffee grown out of the sun taste better and how can that be if coffee only grows in hot tropical places? Well, ’shade-grown’ is partially a misnomer. It really means coffee [...]  Image via Wikipedia One thing is for certain – cultivation of coffee DID begin in Ethiopia and was then spread by the Arabic world as it expanded rapidly around 1100 AD. From the Arabic world. Coffee was traded into Europe and India. The very first consumption of coffee was in solid form – grinding beans into [...]  Image via Wikipedia The History Of Coffee Coffee is everywhere nowadays. Spread by its success as a legal stimulant and by the aggressive marketing of companies like Starbucks, it is pretty hard to find anywhere in the world that doesn’t have ready access to coffee of some sort. But coffee means different things to different people, cultures [...] |
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