The coffee you drink
In the coffee world, there are two commercially-viable species of coffee plants: coffea arabica and coffea canephora. The latter is commonly known as robusta coffee.
Robusta is usually the crap stuff you get off supermarket shelves, like the instant coffee kind. It looks like coffee, smells like coffee, taste like coffee.
But coffee is much more than that. It is a culinary experience. It is gout de terrior. And specialty coffee, like the ubiquitous big green, and especially if you stay in North America, companies like them, them, them and them, provide coffees that enable you to experience this centuries-old beverage on a sensory level unlike anything you have experienced before.
When you buy what I call corporate coffee, you help fuel a demand that has far-reaching and detrimental effects. And pretty much a cup of coffee that offers little taste dimensions and character.
There are enough links here for some reading. I’ll let the coffee, “speak for itself.” Have a good cuppa the next time.
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I don’t see the relation between my post and the one about chongqing’s 100 public toilets…