Tea & Coffee 06/03 - Vietnamese Coffee and the Plight of the Montagnards (#)

  „In the Caribbean, the indigenous population was quickly killed off or died of diseases introduced by Europeans, so African slaves were transported to work on the coffee and sugar plantations. By 1790, the French were growing half the world’s coffee on the island of San Domingo (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic), but a slave revolt the following year destroyed the plantations. In Brazil, the Portuguese imported African slaves to labor on the coffee plantations until 1888, when slavery was finally abolished.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „De Clieu became one of coffee's greatest heroes, honored in song and story (songs and stories of white Europeans, that is; what the Africans and Indians working the new coffee plantations thought about coffee is not recorded). Pardon, in La Martinique, says de Clieu deserves a place in history next to Parmentier, who brought the potato to France.“

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CAPRESSO

  „"Today Europe shows clearly that there is a next step in how people consume coffee, a step still to be taken by many people here," he explains. "When Europeans go to a specialty store, they are drinking coffee prepared on the principle of pressure-brewed coffee. Our Super-Automatics deliver pressure brewed coffee consistently better and fresher than most American coffee bars."“

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Tips on Coffee - The history of coffee

  „Coffee planting began in the English colonies, but a disease wiped out the plantations, leading the English to re-plant them with tea instead. By the 18th century, the beverage had become popular in Europe, and European colonists had introduced coffee to tropical countries worldwide as a plantation crop to supply domestic demand. During the 19th century, European demand for coffee was so strong that when genuine coffee beans were scarce, people developed similar-tasting substitutes from various roasted vegetable substances, such as chicory root, dandelion root, acorns, or figs. For example, the British used acorns as a coffee substitute during World War II while German U-boats blockaded Britain.“

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Coffee Forest Symbiosis (INeedCoffee.com)

  „The amazing fact is that coffee habitat and nature bring out the best chemistry in sustaining each others needs. Many foreigners who visit the plantation remark that Indian coffee plantations are bird and game sanctuaries. The architectural detail of the coffee mountain is astounding.“

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Tea & Coffee 04/02 - Finding a Path Through a Historic Maze

  „With coffee prices rising, African Robustas began to flow freely into U.S. blends. According to Mark Pendergrast in Uncommon Grounds, “In 1951 Africa had accounted for only 4.8% of U.S. coffee imports; by 1955 the figure had risen to 11.4%.”“

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