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Gourmet Ground Coffee: Where Does It Come From?

Here’s some trivia for you: Americans love their coffee so much that they consume a fifth of the world’s coffee (and Canadians, Austrians, Italians and Scandinavians drink the rest). So have you ever wondered about where your beloved gourmet ground coffee comes from?

Coffee grows best in tropical, equatorial regions – ideally above 3,600 feet and below 8,000 feet. Coffee is an evergreen shrub that produces cherries, and each one contains a couple of beans that can be dried, roasted, ground and turned into coffee as we know it. Coffee bushes are slow burners: it takes them about 7 years to produce their first crop.

Coffee is grown in more than 50 countries around the world, and the five main coffee producer regions are Colombia, Vietnam, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, and the State of Hawaii, best known for its Kona coffee, which grows on the slopes of the active Mauna Loa volcano.

In Mexico, coffee is mainly grown on small farms in the south of the country, in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas. In Africa, roasted coffee is grown in Ethiopia, where legend has it that coffee trees were first discovered, and at the foothills of Mount Kenya.

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Posted on: Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 9:00 am

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