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 […]
Filed under: Arabica Coffee Beans on November 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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!
Filed under: Arabica Coffee Beans, Coffee Producers, Coffee News, Coffee Statistics on November 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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 […]
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