A couple of interesting stories about coffee related crime have come to my attention recently.
As many of you are aware, coffee prices have shot up over the last year or so. This is great news for farmers as they’re getting paid more for all the hard work they put into growing coffee. However, it’s also causing a few headaches.
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Over the centuries coffee has come under attack from various quarters making unfounded and sometimes completely crazy claims against it. Most attacks have had some underlying motive to damage coffee’s reputation, often (as is so common in life) for monetary gain. In 1777, Frederick the Great tried to restrict the use of coffee in Germany by claiming it was unpatriotic:
“It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee use by my subjects, and the like amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. My people must drink beer. His Majesty was brought up on beer and so were his ancestors.”
We finally have some good news on the Grindenstein knock out boxes. They’re now back in stock. Due to changes to their distribution channel we’ve been waiting a very long time for these to arrive. I think 2 out of the 3 colours have been out of stock since before Christmas (which now seems a very very long time ago).
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I was lazily watching TV last Sunday, when in an ad break something caught my eye. I’m sure most of you are familiar with Lloyds TSB’s latest advert for something they call ‘Money Manager’. Basically it’s a tool which breaks down your spending into categories so you can see where all your money goes.
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Some of you may have noticed that recently we’ve been having some stock problems with Bialetti. Deliveries from them so far this year have been a bit patchy and consequently our stock levels have suffered, causing us to run out of several products. Deliveries are slowly improving and we do now have most models back in stock and those still out of stock we hope to be receiving by the end of March.
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De Mello Palheta is credited by some to have started Brazil on the way to becoming the world’s largest coffee producer. It is believed that de Mello Palheta started the cultivation of coffee in Brazil, when in 1727, he obtain either a number of coffee seeds or seedlings from neighbouring French Guiana.
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Following on from the popularity of the Sagaform Takeaway travel mug, we’ve now decided to stock this mug in two additional designs: Pix and Flower. Some of you may remember me writing about these travel mugs back in March last year. I still stand by what a said back then. These mugs are great because as they’re made from porcelain there’s no metallic taste. One drawback though – if you don’t count only keeping drinks hot for around 45 minutes – when I make my partner a tea in mine, she says she can still taste coffee (she’s not a coffee fan – well not yet anyway). I’m not sure why, I think maybe the silicone lid absorbs some of the aromas.
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Some of you may have noticed the distinct lack of new content on this blog. I am still alive, I’ve just not had time to write anything (well anything interesting).
Christmas was very busy and made all the more stressful with deliveries going haywire thanks to the snow. One customer’s order took a month to arrive, travelling on average a staggering 10 miles a day! Others didn’t arrive at all.
Now in the new year I have a few projects on the go: including the redesign of our main website. Hopefully the new website will be up and running before Easter and will improve the shopping experience for our customers.
With any luck, normal service will resume next week. However, I’m not making any promises as time as a nasty habit of slipping away.
Baba Budan is the person responsible for the first cultivation of coffee outside of Ethiopia and Yemen. During a pilgrimage to Mecca, sometime in 17th Century (thought to be around 1635), Budan successfully smuggled out of Yemen, seven fertile coffee beans. Budan had cleverly concealed the beans by strapping them to his belly. On returning to India he planted the beans at his home in the hills of Chickmaglur, near Mysore. The descendants of these plants not only populated India, but were also taken overseas to Indonesia; firstly to the island of Java and subsequently Celebres, Sumatra and Timor.
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I read an article on the BBC’s website last week about a group of apple growers in Herefordshire. They’d been concerned as there was no longer enough demand for their apples and consequently their livelihoods were now at stake.
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