Christmas themes in stores, it must be October! Its also a good time to stock up on calendars for 2010! Espresso Calendar Today, Fair Trade Coffee Review is taking a break from doing fair trade coffee reviews and bringing you a reminder about 2010 (as if you need one), plus a cool site with a [...]
Last week I talked about How to Make a Good Cup of Fair Trade Coffee and pointed out the benefits of using freshly ground beans. Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is providing its opinion of coffee grinders in its coffee grinder review. There is a diverse price range when it comes to coffee grinders, so [...]
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Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at William Spartivento Kona Blend fair trade coffee. This is not a Kona coffee, but a blend with South American fair trade beans done to a full city roast. Rich and creamy! There are mornings when you need a thick, rich, creamy coffee, well this coffee can certainly [...]
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On the weekend, I stopped at a bakery/cafe that I had never been to before. I was in the neighborhood, in a hurry and needed a coffee. They had several airpots with different blends of the same brand of coffee. The large of the fair trade coffee blend was 40 cents more than that of [...]
Today I’d like to talk about making a really good cup of fair trade coffee at home. There’s only a few variables (coffee, water, coffee maker, and possibly a grinder), so let’s look at the importance of each. Oddly enough, probably the most important factor is probably the easiest to change cheaply. A cup of [...]
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Today let’s look outside the coffee world to other areas of Fair Trade. There’s an organization in the U.S. and Canada called Ten Thousand Villages that sells wonderful fair trade products such as jewelry, home decor, and gifts. From tenthousandvillages.com: Discover a World Of Difference. At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 130 artisan [...]
Day 7 of Fair Trade month mentions that all of Dunkin’ Donut’s espresso drinks are Fair Trade Certified. The company has served 100% Fair Trade Certified espresso since 2003. From fairtrademonth.org: As you can imagine, this has made quite an impact: To date Dunkin’ Donuts has purchased more than 20 million pounds of coffee from [...]
Today my review is on Peet’s Coffee Fair Trade Blend. From Peet’s Coffee about their Fair Trade Coffee Blend : “Six hundred families, none farming more than a few acres, operate a mill we know well in Tarrazú, one of the best places in Costa Rica to grow coffee, and certainly the steepest. When this cooperative, [...]
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Since Starbucks has only one, as far as I’m aware, certified fair trade coffee, Cafe Estima Blend, I knew there would be many reviews online. Surprisingly, most were very favorable and almost all referenced how smooth it was. Here’s the Starbucks product description Fair Trade Café Estima Blend™ by Starbucks Coffee Velvety smooth and balanced [...]
Day 2 of Fair Trade month offers a wonderful story about Luis Adauto de Oliveira, a fair trade coffee farmer from Brazil. “Fair Trade has given us the ability to grow coffee the way it should be grown – sustainably, organically and with great concern for quality. Our families are fed, our children are in [...]