Entrepreneur Brings Sicilian Espresso to Town

I found this article in the Jamaica Plain Gazette, a small Boston newspaper.
 When Francesco Calderaro came to the United States from Palermo, Sicily eight years ago to pursue a master’s degree, he was amazed at some of the things that passed for “authentic” Italian food, he said in an interview last week. The JP resident […]

Top 10 Coffee Producing Countries

According to the International Coffee Organization, Brazil leads the world in coffee production with an average of more than 38 million bags of coffee produced each year.
The following table shows the average number of bags of coffee produced from 2004-2006 per country.

Country
Average Coffee Production (in bags)

Brazil
38,243,298

Vietnam
14,423,067

Colombia
12,187,029

Indonesia
7,655,001

Ethiopia
4,482,479

India
4,679,772

Peru
3,344,548

Mexico
4,022,337

Guatemala
3,731,852

Honduras
2,826,502

Total
95,955,884

That’s a lot of coffee!

Review of the Bialetti Stovetop Espresso Maker

Growing up as a kid, when my Italian grandparents had guests over they always made coffee in one of these Bialetti stove top espresso pots. More recently, on a trip to Italy every house we went to had one of these espresso makers; usually more than one (of different sizes). It seems if you’re […]