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According to the amount of blood, sweat and tears that spilled throughout the history imported of coffee cultivation, can perform the following analogy: Expeditions for orchids (the film "Adaptation"); Gold Rush Alaska (book by Jack London); Crude oil production (the film "There imported Will Be Blood" (Oil)); And, of course, diamonds (the film "Blood diamond", by the way, there is an amazing soundtrack)
Did you know that: Frauds coffee prices in the 20-ies of XX century - one of the causes imported of the Great Depression in the United States? imported A cup of cappuccino, imported which you book in a coffee shop - it's average daily earnings of coffee pickers in Brazil? Or that an expensive and high-end imported coffees are organic because they are grown private imported farmers (who, unlike the powerful corporations abandoned pesticides imported and so get more profit for less grain on that will allow them to feed their families)? And, finally, that by buying products with the logo of Fair Trade in some stores, you will help small producers to stay afloat and produce really good coffee, not the swill that advertise on TV?
In 1999, Congress en Tear WTO in Seattle. One of Starbucks coffee houses was destroyed, because the protest organizers have announced that they shall bear their slogans of "fair trade" instead of "free trade" to the door of Starbucks coffee network with the requirement that it was selling coffee grown by farmers who receive a salary not less than the minimum subsistence level. imported
In 2000, Starbucks imported announced that from now on it will be a line menu coffee certified for Fair Trade (Fair Trade); it does not shake the foundations victory, but at least the sign of the times.
In 1564 the first coffee house was opened imported in Istanbul and coffee here appear like mushrooms imported after rain. Sultan Mehmet, disguised as a commoner, visited several coffee houses and terrified free mores that reigned there. (It came to the point that the sultan himself imported ridiculed and criticized!) He commanded close all coffee and throw into prison coffee lovers. If the coffee lover caught a second time, it sewed up in a sack and thrown into the sea.
The end of the XVI century - European traders were acquaint with coffee beans in the Arab portah.Konechno, Arabs have long held a monopoly on the drink and made sure that no living plant or grain to Europe has not got. However prohibit a favorite drink was impossible. His continued drinking despite all prohibitions and decrees. Realizing that the fight against coffee useless, Sultan Suleiman III allows imported his subjects to drink coffee, but in designated areas and overlaid coffee enormous imported taxes. The first attempts were made to distribute coffee in Mocha. It is said that Sheikh Chadli had the idea of transplanting trees and the beginning of the coffee trade. Mocha coffee became known varieties are still popular around the world. Local residents managed to not only improve the quality of coffee beans, but also bring new varieties. For 200 years, Yemen has been the main country to supply coffee to the world market. At the end of the XVII century the Dutch bought coffee from the Arabs, who brought directly to Amsterdam. Later, they secretly taken coffee seedlings in the Dutch East Indies, where the seedlings have taken root, and multiply rapidly. Dutch entrepreneurs first started breeding coffee in their colonies. And the first coffee plantations became the Dutch islands of Java and Sumatra (1690). Holland markedly enriched in the XVII century and became the largest producer of coffee. Now she could dictate its conditions on the world market.
In 1714 the magistrate of Amsterdam, despite the protests of the royal botanist de Ussé, decided to present the French king Louis XIV as a gift one coffee imported tree, which was planted in the royal garden. It stuck. The French tried several times to grow seedlings from its seeds, but in vain. Nevertheless, a French adventurer stole some coffee tree seedlings from the Dutch. And then at the Paris botanical garden grown coffee trees. Captain Ae Clieu on behalf of the French king moved a coffee tree on the island of Martinique. Soon there was already a whole coffee plantation, which gave the French imported treasury income. Somewhat later came the coffee plantations on the islands of Guadeloupe and Haiti, in 1730 coffee spread imported to other French colonies in the Antilles. In 1737, the French signed a trade agreement with Yemen and a year later captured the port of Mocha.
In Europe, began to actively imported use coffee from the XVII century. Tried the first cup of coffee in Rome in 1626. There is another view that Europeans introduced coffee German botanist Bellus. The first coffee houses were opened in London (1652), Marseille (1671), Paris (1672). French coffee regulars were Rousseau, Diderot, Robespierre and many other celebrities.
At the crucial moment of the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683 Yuri Kulchitskii, dressed in Turkish clothes, imported walked enemy cordon and led the allied troops
According to the amount of blood, sweat and tears that spilled throughout the history imported of coffee cultivation, can perform the following analogy: Expeditions for orchids (the film "Adaptation"); Gold Rush Alaska (book by Jack London); Crude oil production (the film "There imported Will Be Blood" (Oil)); And, of course, diamonds (the film "Blood diamond", by the way, there is an amazing soundtrack)
Did you know that: Frauds coffee prices in the 20-ies of XX century - one of the causes imported of the Great Depression in the United States? imported A cup of cappuccino, imported which you book in a coffee shop - it's average daily earnings of coffee pickers in Brazil? Or that an expensive and high-end imported coffees are organic because they are grown private imported farmers (who, unlike the powerful corporations abandoned pesticides imported and so get more profit for less grain on that will allow them to feed their families)? And, finally, that by buying products with the logo of Fair Trade in some stores, you will help small producers to stay afloat and produce really good coffee, not the swill that advertise on TV?
In 1999, Congress en Tear WTO in Seattle. One of Starbucks coffee houses was destroyed, because the protest organizers have announced that they shall bear their slogans of "fair trade" instead of "free trade" to the door of Starbucks coffee network with the requirement that it was selling coffee grown by farmers who receive a salary not less than the minimum subsistence level. imported
In 2000, Starbucks imported announced that from now on it will be a line menu coffee certified for Fair Trade (Fair Trade); it does not shake the foundations victory, but at least the sign of the times.
In 1564 the first coffee house was opened imported in Istanbul and coffee here appear like mushrooms imported after rain. Sultan Mehmet, disguised as a commoner, visited several coffee houses and terrified free mores that reigned there. (It came to the point that the sultan himself imported ridiculed and criticized!) He commanded close all coffee and throw into prison coffee lovers. If the coffee lover caught a second time, it sewed up in a sack and thrown into the sea.
The end of the XVI century - European traders were acquaint with coffee beans in the Arab portah.Konechno, Arabs have long held a monopoly on the drink and made sure that no living plant or grain to Europe has not got. However prohibit a favorite drink was impossible. His continued drinking despite all prohibitions and decrees. Realizing that the fight against coffee useless, Sultan Suleiman III allows imported his subjects to drink coffee, but in designated areas and overlaid coffee enormous imported taxes. The first attempts were made to distribute coffee in Mocha. It is said that Sheikh Chadli had the idea of transplanting trees and the beginning of the coffee trade. Mocha coffee became known varieties are still popular around the world. Local residents managed to not only improve the quality of coffee beans, but also bring new varieties. For 200 years, Yemen has been the main country to supply coffee to the world market. At the end of the XVII century the Dutch bought coffee from the Arabs, who brought directly to Amsterdam. Later, they secretly taken coffee seedlings in the Dutch East Indies, where the seedlings have taken root, and multiply rapidly. Dutch entrepreneurs first started breeding coffee in their colonies. And the first coffee plantations became the Dutch islands of Java and Sumatra (1690). Holland markedly enriched in the XVII century and became the largest producer of coffee. Now she could dictate its conditions on the world market.
In 1714 the magistrate of Amsterdam, despite the protests of the royal botanist de Ussé, decided to present the French king Louis XIV as a gift one coffee imported tree, which was planted in the royal garden. It stuck. The French tried several times to grow seedlings from its seeds, but in vain. Nevertheless, a French adventurer stole some coffee tree seedlings from the Dutch. And then at the Paris botanical garden grown coffee trees. Captain Ae Clieu on behalf of the French king moved a coffee tree on the island of Martinique. Soon there was already a whole coffee plantation, which gave the French imported treasury income. Somewhat later came the coffee plantations on the islands of Guadeloupe and Haiti, in 1730 coffee spread imported to other French colonies in the Antilles. In 1737, the French signed a trade agreement with Yemen and a year later captured the port of Mocha.
In Europe, began to actively imported use coffee from the XVII century. Tried the first cup of coffee in Rome in 1626. There is another view that Europeans introduced coffee German botanist Bellus. The first coffee houses were opened in London (1652), Marseille (1671), Paris (1672). French coffee regulars were Rousseau, Diderot, Robespierre and many other celebrities.
At the crucial moment of the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683 Yuri Kulchitskii, dressed in Turkish clothes, imported walked enemy cordon and led the allied troops
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