Smell of roasting coffee is a stimulant to memory

BY MARICEL E. PRESILLA
Miami Herald

One of the biggest tropical cash crops Europeans introduced in Latin America was coffee. It was the first real stimulant known in the New World outside of the South American yerba mate regions, and it came in the early 18th century -- shrouded in intrigue. In a couple of centuries it become a major plantation crop in Central America, the Caribbean and parts of South America, and it became woven into the fabric of our lives.

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