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The Origins of Coffee When you sit down each morning with a large mug of coffee in your hands as you prepare for your work day, you probably haven’t thought about your coffee’s journey to your cup. The earliest record ...

Brazil is currently the largest producer of coffee in the entire world, accounting for roughly one-third of the world’s coffee. Mainly grown in the southern states of Minas, Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, along with the city of Santos, Brazil provides ...

Antiguan coffee from Guatemala is rich with history. After Spaniards converted Mayan lands into working plantations, Guatemalans began to cultivate coffee. Soon after, in the 1850s, their traditional export, the carmine dye that was extracted from the insect cochineal began ...