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Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer published an article that shows there’s more to Philly coffee than La Colombe Torrefaction: Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/23/2006 | International coffees.
They review a number of different international styles of coffee available in the area, including the following:

RoseLena’s old Viennese-style coffeehouse
Ray’s Cafe & Tea House for $8-a-cup Jamaican Blue Mountain and Vietnamese-style coffee
Nam [...]

Tags: caffe_corretto, colombia_coffee, greek_coffee, irish_coffee, jamaican_blue_mountain, philadelphia_coffee, turkish_coffee, vietnamese_coffee

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Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on: The dark story of poverty in your coffee cup.
In particular, it discusses the coffee paradox — i.e., how there could be a coffee boom in the consuming countries at the same time as a coffee crisis in the producing countries. Despite citing the impacts of the Vietnamese robusta glut [...]

Tags: big_four_coffee, coffee_certifications, coffee_growers, coffee_marketing, colombia_coffee, fair_trade, juan_valdez, Robusta, vietnamese_coffee

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According to the VietNam News, the average price of wholesale coffee in Vietnam has risen up to 80% in the past year due to a regional drought in 2004-5. Coffee supplies are estimated at 30-50% lower than normal: Coffee prices surge on demand.
Given the awful, mass production quality robusta beans that largely come out of [...]

Tags: coffee_prices, coffee_supplies, Robusta, vietnamese_coffee

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released a study projecting the world’s supply of coffee: Forecast: World coffee exports to fall.
The good news? Specialty coffee crops, like those from Kona, Hawaii, are on the rise. The bad news? Vietnamese robusta continues to proliferate on the commodity coffee market with crude, inexpensive beans that threaten the [...]

Tags: coffee_supplies, hawaii_coffee, Robusta, vietnamese_coffee

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Vive Le Burnt Tires!
When people think of France, and Paris in particular, they most often think of grand boulevards, beautiful architecture, beautiful people, high French cuisine, and the sidewalk café lifestyle. What they often don’t associate with it is black, bitter coffee made from some of the world’s crudest coffee beans, roasted in the most [...]

Tags: big_four_coffee, bitterness, coffee_marketing, fair_trade, folgers, french_coffee, Robusta, vietnamese_coffee

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