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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

I bumped into this true connoisseur of coffee whilst filming a short piece for National Chocolate week!

He certainly new his stuff so I asked him where he would recommend ...

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Cafe's

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Costa's Barbers, Battersea High Street Market
Ropewalk - Bermondsey
Lowry and Baker (Portabello)
Taylor Street Barista's @ Source, Richmond
Poilane, off the Kings Road
MONMOUTH, Borough Market ... where it all began
Department of Coffee and Social Affairs, Leather Lane
Federation Coffee - Brixton
Fernandez and Wells, Somerset House

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quotes and random facts

"Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister." Bob Irwin

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.” A.A.Milne

Discovered by a Goat

Coffee was first discovered by a young goat herder by the name of Kaldi in the 9th-century. He noticed his goats acting strange when they ate the cherries from the coffee tree so he tried it for himself.

"I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume."

John Van Druten

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

Kopi Luwak

"Kopi" is the Indonesian word for coffee and "Luwak" is local name of the Civet, an animal which eats the raw red coffee 'cherries' as part of its usual diet. This animal eats a mixed diet of insects, small mammals and fruits along with the softer outer part of the coffee cherry but does not digest the inner beans, instead excreting them still covered in some inner layers of the cherry.

Locals then gather the beans -- which come through the 'animal stage' fairly intact -- and sell them on to dealers. It is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavour through fermentation of some type.

It costs £50.00 for a cup in Selfridges ... next year maybe!

The Croissant

Although the croissant has always been associated with France, one story claims the croissant actually originates from Budapest. According to legend, a group of Viennese bakers were responsible for preventing a Turkish invasion and to celebrate began producing pastries in the shape of the Islamic crescent moon.

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