Fair Trade Coffee Recommendation

Madison... (4.00 / 2)

I trust you ate well there, too?

:)

Tell us about it!

Looking over their site...

I've always been a fan of Tanzanian Peaberry, ever since I discovered it years and years ago at one of my favorite New Jersey coffee shops, Rocky Hill By The Cup (no website, as far as I can tell), in Rocky Hill on 518 between Princeton (Montgomery) and South Brunswick / Franklin.

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 03:29:40 AM UTC

Madison was heaven (4.00 / 2)

I got cox orange pippin apples from Future Fruit Farm & ate squash curry at Lao Laan Xang plus vegan carrot cake from the co-op and I discovered a new chocolate shop that sold hot cocoa so good that I had to go there twice. I also brought over some food from CA (it was in the fridge and I didn't want it to go bad) and it was very well received by my excited WI friends because their fields are covered in snow and they won't be getting peas and asparagus any month soon. So they helped me cook it up and we all ate it together. I ate some good cheese too. And one night I was too lazy to deal with dinner and ended up just eating Potter's Crackers for dinner with an apple.

Oh and I ate at Marigold Kitchen twice. I'm afraid it might be a chain but the food's really good. And I ate the amazing breakfast at the farmers' market, which is made by local chefs (a different one each week) from the food produced by the vendors at the market. This week's was a piece of toast topped with a fried egg, cooked spinach and mushrooms, plus a piece of raspberry/blueberry coffee cake, salad, potato has with cheese sauce, Just Coffee, and a glass of apple cider. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 03:40:04 AM UTC

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Sounds great! (4.00 / 2)

Mmmmm, asparagus...

I'm operating on the assumption that we probably have about 6 or 7 weeks left until asparagus here.  Unless Joanne knows different and cares to correct me?

I'm currently obsessed with local kiwi, but when asparagus season comes around?  Fugghedaboudit!  I will eat asparagus 7 times a day for at least the first 3 weeks!

I do believe I'm now going to make a fried egg and spinach and mushrooms on toast sandwich for breakfast tomorrow!  Mmmm, local Oregon winter breakfast...

:)

Now, if only someone would finally make transcendent bagels out here!

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 04:11:15 AM UTC

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fact I find interesting about kiwi (4.00 / 2)

Kiwi trees are either boys or girls. So you need two trees to make fruit.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 04:41:30 AM UTC

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Fascinating... (4.00 / 2)

Wow, I never knew that!  That's sort of exceptional in the plant world, isn't it?

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 04:55:44 AM UTC

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I don't know (4.00 / 2)

although it's not the norm for fruit trees. Many are self-pollinating. A few like apples and pears require you to have more than 1 variety in order to get fruit.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 05:07:53 AM UTC

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Kiwi's are vines, not trees. (4.00 / 2)

They are also very vigorous, people are told to provide them with sturdy support.

What you said about the male and female kiwis reminds me, I've got a male plant that I have to dig up this weekend. My females died, and one of my subscriber's male died, so I'm going to give her my male.

Either Paw Paws or Persimons need different varieties in the same species to be productive too, I foget which though.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 14:37:47 PM UTC

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Avoid this problem entirely... (4.00 / 1)

Buy Organic American Coffee:

http://konacomfortcoffee.com

Talk about your fair trade, well paid workers, organically grown and processed, and damn delicious too.

But your point is a good one. Not everyone can afford Kona. I drink less of it, so it tends to equal out. But, at least on special occasions, it's certainly worth it. I know the guys who grow it, and it's a great product.

You can buy the beans green and roast them yourself in an air-popper for popcorn.

"We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking."-Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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by: supak @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 13:54:54 PM UTC

Or not (4.00 / 1)

Jamaica Blue Mountain and Kona are very bland. They have no taste, which is why they are prized by people who usually don't like coffee.

If a person wants Kona, though, that website might be a worthwhile source. Roasted Kona hovers between $35-$40 per pound, and those offerings are a little cheaper.

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by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 14:39:00 PM UTC

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