I have been living in America for the past 20 years. Even with all the boom in the gourmet coffee industry, I was never able to go to a Starbucks, a Dunkin Donuts and ask for a Brazilian Coffee, I could have Colombian, Ethiopia, Jamaican, Kona etc etc. But never Brazilian. Trying to buy Brazilian Gourmet Coffee was the same experience. I went to several "Gourmet Markets" in New York and there was never Brazilian Gourmet Coffee. I could find "Brazil Santos" , but for me "Brazil Santos" is a commodity coffee that is shipped out of the Santos Port in Brazil. Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. At least 10% of the whole production is considered Gourmet, so if Brazil produced 37.5 million bags of coffee in 2007, there are at least 3.75 million bags of Gourmet Coffee coming from there. Where is this coffee???who is drinking it??( each bag of coffee is 60 kg or 132 lb)
Monday, June 23, 2008
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