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„Sounds like a good start, right? Except for one thing - while European countries are embracing this methodology, the US is not, and organizations like National Coffee Association (a lobby group backed by the Big Four) are heavily pushing US lawmakers to avoid making this methodology the law - raising the bar for the lowest-acceptable imported coffee can be. Yet we get more apparent doublespeak from the Big Four - in a recent Fortune article, all of them claimed they do not buy coffee that falls below the ICO's new standards. Now why would they say that if their lobby group is fighting to prevent the US Government from making the ICO's minimum standards more official (as in a trade law or practice)?“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/markprince/ 11-27-2002 - Cached
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„Bottom Line: A unique flavor producing system that is as close to European style coffee as you can get without an expresso machine.“
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„Great news for Coffeegeeks! Kona coffee production is rising, and the crop for this year is expected to be even better in grade.“
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„Discussions > Regional > Europe > Good coffee in...“
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„The instruction manual provided is useless. I found that this is a fully manual machine so that you have to turn on and turn off the pump switch so as to control the time of expresso running out from the machine. I need to control the tamping and the grinding together in order to make a perfect 25s run. It takes me few weeks to master the techique...“
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„A look at the first coffee plant grown on European soil...more>> “
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