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Coffee Culture 101

Coffee is like the phoenix that rises from its own ashes in renewed trend after trend, the Nineties American specialty coffee phenomenon being its latest incarnation.
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by Rhonda Adair

In the not-too-olden days of a decade ago, the weary American traveler would be lucky to find a little freeze-dried packet of coffee in his motel room. Now, a drip coffee pot complete with a pre-packaged filter full of ground Colombian is more the norm, if needed anyway, since there is probably a coffee house within a couple of blocks ready to provide that morning latte. Thanks to the entrepreneurial encouragement of one major coffeehouse chain, several reputable copycats, and many worthy local establishments, Americans have joined the happy but jittery throngs that make coffee the world's most popular beverage after water.

Coffee is like the phoenix that rises from its own ashes in renewed trend after trend, the Nineties American specialty coffee phenomenon being its latest incarnation. But coffee is no spring chicken; from ignomius and somewhat mythological roots among frisky goats on the moonlit foothills of Yemen, coffee has inspired philosophers, revolutionaries, inventors, and businessmen for centuries.

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USAID Response to Coffee Crisis in the Americas and Elsewhere

Fact Sheet: USAID Response to Coffee Crisis in the Americas and Elsewhere
(Agency supports coffee-production activities in over 25 countries)

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing resources and coordinating initiatives to help mitigate the effects of the coffee crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, and around the world.

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Coffee with compassion: Source Aid trades beans for better lives

By Susan Fuller
STAFF WRITER

Tin shacks with leaky roofs and dirt floors. Windowless houses, sooty inside from cooking over wood fires. People with dirty clothes and hands, most without shoes. Kids with coughs, runny noses and chronic lung problems, picking coffee instead of going to school. Rice and beans and dirty water, no milk. No doctor and no money to pay for one.

Those impressions instantly slapped Pete Rogers across the face on his first coffee-buying trip to Guatemala in 1986.

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A taste for the job: Coffee roasters, buyers are serious java junkies

By Jake Batsell
Seattle Times business reporter

It takes a refined palate, a frequent-flier card, the charisma to build lasting relationships and a knack for driving a deal.

But the paramount trait shared by Seattle's top coffee gurus is also the most obvious: an unslakable thirst for java.

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Coffee Fest in Town This Week

(Feb. 28) -- Creative coffee making reached a new level Friday afternoon when coffee makers from around the world participated in a "latte art" contest at the Riviera.

The winner wowed judges by creating a Rosetta leaf out of cream on top of his latte--while wearing a boxing glove.

Latte Art Winner Sammy Piccolo says while he enjoys traveling the world for various coffee competitions it won't distract him from his main mission in life: "It's fun. The show's good but the most important part is that I'm not going to sacrifice my coffee in order to win the competition. I want to make the best coffee every time."

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Strong sales put buzz in specialty coffee industry

David Goll

Americans feeling the economic pinch may be putting off purchases of sailboats and dining room sets, but don't even think of asking them to give up their daily double low-fat latte with a dusting of cinnamon.

In a nation that once thought something resembling dishwater was acceptable coffee, consumers of every income level have made today's burgeoning specialty coffee industry virtually recession-proof. That's reflected in earnings reports released both by industry behemoth Starbucks Corp., which operates about 6,200 stores worldwide, and its much smaller rival Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. of Emeryville.

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Drink companies get around caffeine rules with Brazilian bean

OTTAWA - Energy drinks in Canada are being spiked with guarana, a food additive that has high levels of caffeine. Consumers won't know what they're drinking because there is no law requiring drink makers to disclose that guarana is high in caffeine.

Guarana is a way for some companies to get around the rules because caffeine cannot be added to clear pops and juices in Canada.

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The Story of the Bialetti Moka Express

by Myron Joshua

Alongside and connected to the rise of Italian fascism came a revolution in the drinking habits of the Italian public. It might sound peculiar, but what has become known as THE Italian way to brew coffee in the home, Moka Pot (or Stovetop Espresso) Brewing is linked to the social, technological and economic changes that Italian fascism advanced during the 1930’s.

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