May
17
The History of coffee is as colorful as that of the human civilization, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. It is shrouded by legends and story that dates back up to a thousand years. What is certain though is that coffee was originally found in Ethiopia and Yemen. At that time only the leaves and flowers were brewed into a tisane and drank by the natives.
1000 years ago, with coffee trees growing in southwest Arabia the Arabs, came up with the idea of roasting the beans found inside the sweet tasting coffee cherries. It was then that the coffee bean drink was born.
How Flavored Coffee Beans Came to be
May
15
Flavored Coffee Bean Background
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Coffee has had many colorful stories about how it was discovered. The most popular origin of coffee story is of a goat herd who noticed his usually sluggish goats cavorting around after eating the red berries from a dark green tall shrub. The goat herd took some of the berries home and tried these as well as gave some to his neighbors and monks in the nearby monastery. The monks experimented with the berries and eventually found that scorching the beans and grinding them created a heavenly brew that was capable of keeping them alert and awake for some time.
Adding Flavor to Coffee
May
13
Drinking fairtrade organic coffee is one of the best ways to contribute to poverty alleviation all over the world. Fairtrade organic coffee is produced by small farmers in many developing countries all over the world. Most of these farmers are what we call “subsistence” farmers who get barely enough income to feed and clothe their families.
Several of these small coffee farmers live in hinterland areas where development is very slow and life is often very hard. Since farming is the only way of life that most of these people knew, most members of the family work in the family’s coffee farm tending to trees and handpicking coffee beans off the tress from sunrise to sunset.
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