Friday, April 04, 2003


usaid

long-time readers know that i keep writing about the world price depression known as the "coffee crisis." naturally in situations like this, development organzations, both governmental and non, step in to offer assistance and write endless reports.

the united states developmental organization, usaid, has been fairly active in attempting to help coffee-producing countries, esp. in latin america. they have ponied up some funding, but are mostly focused on marketing and trade assistance it seems.

today we have an interesting speech on the subject from a usaid official. what's of note about this, to my mind, is the nice explanation of how the coffee crisis began and what the big picture is now. . .snooze alert: you have to skim through about 12 graphs of blah-blah-blah before you get to the pertinent coffee info. . .

i know the coffee trade organization i now belong to, the scaa, has been active with usaid in its efforts.

ok, enough of that -- how about coffee news we can really use? a nice coffee overview with good instructions on how to brew properly. this is the number one fault i find with most coffee: it's either too strong or too weak.

and usually, it's also been allowed to boil into tar from sitting too long on a hotplate. . .so read this and repeat after me: two tablespoons of ground coffee for every six ounces of water.

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