A not-so-proud episode in the history of coffee is the fact that many slaves were used to harvest the beans in the colonies like Brazil. Women and children harvested and sorted the seeds. Men were forced to prepare the land, plant the trees, prune them and digging irrigation ditches. Later they were joined by poorly Continue reading →

Ethiopia – Kaldi Around 8500 AD, and Abyssinian goat herder named Kaldi witnessed his goats jumping around wildly after eating leaves and berries of a coffee plant. He then tried the coffee berries and leaves himself, and felt delighted and energetic. He showed the berries to monks in a nearby monastery, where the monks threw Continue reading →

The first coffee tree grew in the Kaffa region in Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia), which is in North-East Africa. The people there, called Abyssinians, initially did not drink coffee, though – they at the berries and the leaves. They also ground the beans and mixed the ground with animal fat or butter. The balls that Continue reading →

by: Dakota Caudilla Even a Coffee Bean or San Francisco Coffee outlet frequenter won’t be able to master the art of appreciating true gourmet coffee unless they know the history and info about gourmet coffee. Oh, of course, you don’t have to an EXPERT to enjoy and understand gourmet coffee, but knowing a little bit Continue reading →

I was just looking up the world’s top producers for tea leaves. So it only makes sense to do the same for the other brew that I talk about on this site: coffee. What are the top producing countries in the world for green coffee beans? I looked at the reporting from the Food And Continue reading →