Coffee from around the world |
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Coffee Around The World |
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The old song goes: " They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil",
but today's gourmet coffee-drinkers want quality rather than
quantity, and seek out little-known varieties from obscure corners
of the world. The Frenchman Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu transported the first coffee plant to the New World in 1715 and established a plantation on the island of Martinique. Several years later, when an earthquake destroyed the cocoa plantations of Santo Domingo, de Clieu was able to provide seeds for new coffee plants, and coffee's geographic circle widened. Gradually, plants were transported from island to island, to mainland, then from one mainland colony to another, not only in the New World, but in East as well. The Spanish planted coffee from Java in Philippines; Brazilian seeds reached Hawaii in 1825, and the French, who deserve so much credit for the spread of coffee-growing throughout the world, introduced coffee to their Indochinese colonies in 1887. In the last quarter of 1800s, the British cultivated coffee in their African plantations, starting in central Africa and working eastwards, until the little red berries had come full circle from where they were first discovered centuries before. |
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Last updated :09 June, 2008
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