What is Sustainable Coffee and How Does it Affect My Wake Cup?

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One group, Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) has been active in monitoring and certifying, auditing and verifying standards for sustainable coffees. Another, named Transfair USA, carries on similar activities inrepparttar American coffee market. Consumers are justifiably confused when many terms are applied to sustainable coffees and fail to differentiate between organic, eco-friendly, fair trade and sustainable terms.

Premium prices are sometimes supported by certification, labeling and monitoring by third-party organizations and sometimes by local governments such asrepparttar 113083 "Jamaica Coffee Industry Board." But some labeling is simply slick sales and PR by greedy corporations seeking premium prices for average coffee beans, so support for labeling initiatives and independent certification is growing.

Fair Trade and sustainable coffees are seeing increasing production in Central and South American growing regions, most notably in Mexico and Peru. Columbia has seen some pressure and attempts to divert production of cocaine with coffee crops forrepparttar 113084 fair trade market with little major success to report so far. Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia are big participants in sustainable coffees in Africa while East Timor, India and Indonesia are major supporters of sustainable coffee in Asia.

Withrepparttar 113085 North American coffee market dominated by multinational giants Sara Lee, Kraft and Procter & Gamble, little interest has been shown in adopting sustainable coffee by major corporate coffee producers. Meanwhile, Brazil and Vietnam,repparttar 113086 world's No. 1 and No. 2 coffee producers, respectively are floodingrepparttar 113087 market with poor quality beans and driving down coffee prices.

But major grocery chains are seeing demand for sustainable coffee and may adopt fair trade and organic coffees to sell nationwide at Safeway, Kroger and Albertson's stores. Increases in availability, demand and awareness of sustainable coffee are leading to more ofrepparttar 113088 same in a spiraling increase for fair trade organic and shade coffees in premium markets. Some sustainable coffees are even finding their way into instant coffees, butrepparttar 113089 vast majority ofrepparttar 113090 sustainable market is in premium and specialty markets.

Tastes of The World coffee company http://www.tastesoftheworld.net Rare Gourmet Coffee from Jamaica Blue Mountain to Kopi Luwak exotic and fine Italian Espressos from Illy and Marcafe as well as a selection of premium Puerto Rican coffees including Cafe Tres Picachos. Come discuss your favorites in the coffee talk forums at http://www.tastesoftheworld.net/talk/


3 Methods For Perfectly Melted Chocolate

Written by Lee Dobbins


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Microwave

Usingrepparttar microwave to melt chocolate can berepparttar 113082 fastest but alsorepparttar 113083 most disastrous method as a couple of seconds of overheating can ruinrepparttar 113084 chocolate. Choprepparttar 113085 chocolate and put it in a microwave safe bowl. Heat on 50% for 1 to 4 minutes -repparttar 113086 amount of time needed will depend onrepparttar 113087 amount of chocolate you are melting so you will have to watchrepparttar 113088 chocolaterepparttar 113089 whole time. When you see that it is turning shiny and before it is fully melted, remove it fromrepparttar 113090 oven and stir until it melts fully.



Lee Dobbins is editor of www.online-gourmet-foods.com where you can learn more about gourmet food and find out more about gourmet chocolate.


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