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Tuesday 7 7 2009

Foods that Call for Coffee

Flowerless chocolate cake from your favorite bakery and vanilla iced cream from your local grocer will make for a delicacy when combined with the right cup of coffee. Take a Ugandan coffee with hints of bakers chocolate and pour it over a scoop of vanilla iced cream. Serve that in a bowl alongside flowerless chocolate cake with fresh strawberries, and you will have a desert fit for royalty. The chocolaty undertones of the Uganda coffee will mix perfectly with the vanilla iced cream, and will blend deliciously with the dark rich flavor of the flowerless chocolate cake. This will all be topped off perfectly by the refreshing fruit flavor of the fresh strawberries.

Have some preferred pairings of your own? Share them in our Coffee Blog!

Coffee Processing/Handling Techniques Play out in the Cup

Last week at Crop to Cup Brooklyn we had an eye opening and tasty coffee cupping. The goal was to re-cup a set of 6 new crop coffee samples that we recently received from two sources in the Bugisu region of Uganda. We had cupped them the previous Friday, off a nice sample roast created by no other than NYC coffee fave Daniel Humphries. We cupped roughly 24 hours after roasting. JD and his team from Oslo Coffee and a few other friends joined us, and we definitely got a good read on the options. We all settled on what we thought were the best coffees.

View our full blogpost on Coffee Processing/Handling Techniques here!

Do you know Augustin?

We’d like you to meet someone. He is one of the farmers who helped pick the coffee that you may have tasted if you know Crop to Cup. His name is Augustin Kissa. He and his extended family live high on the slopes of Mt. Elgon in Masira Subcounty of Eastern Uganda. Augustin is referred to as a muzeh, a respectful term for ‘old-timer’, and would consider himself a ‘gentlemen farmer’ because, like many of his neighbors, Augustin had left his home village to pursue a career in the city, only to return to his family upon retirement to live off the land. Now, the 850 trees in his family garden provide enough income to house, clothe, and educate the next generation of Kissa’s and continue the positive trend alive in his community.

Augustin will see all the comments you enter for him in our Coffee Blog, so come leave him a message!

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That's it for this week. Anything you'd like to know about coffee? Let us know at newsletter@croptocup.com so we can incorporate it into a future newsletter! Thank you for being part of the Crop To Cup Community.

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PS: Did this email give you some good useful information? If so, or especially if not, please let us know. Email your comments, criticisms, and even your ideas for future newsletters to newsletter@croptocup.com, and we'll send you a free personal-size bag of our Uganda Bugisu.