After having spent many days thinking about what my thesis could talk about I've decided that I am going to analyze...coffee!
And now I have to face another problem which is represented by the long research for information, data, recipes, etc. etc.
Actually surfing the net I found a series of weird articles; in fact it seems that the most expensive kind of coffee derives from the Asian Palm Civet's feces; this gracious animal is originary of Indonesia (where its common name is "Luwak") and it seems to be greedy of coffee cherries which, in its stomach, thanks to a particular digestive process, are toasted and all this process gives the coffee a sweet and sugary taste. The beans, as you have deduced, are recovered directly from the animals' feces and, obviously, washed.
The most shocking issue is that this coffee costs about 85$ per hectogram! Honestly speaking I've never tasted it, but I believe that it has really a wonderful taste if people are disposed to pay so much, but I must admit that this news completely floored me.
After a few minutes of shock I continued my research on the net and I decided to analyze in-depthly the "feces question".
It seems that this extravagant idea is widespread. In fact a Canadian businessman decided to invest a whopping 300 000$ to buy some Thailand elephants to produce coffee; here a question rises spontaneously, but seen the post's theme, it is rhetorical: how can an elephant produce coffee? Obviously through its feces, in fact the owner discovered that the elephants' digestive process is similar to the civets' one so, feeding its pachyderms with coffee plants with ripe cherries, their external skin was separated from the bean thanks to the elephants' gastric juice. In the end what "comes out" is a kind of coffee which is less bitter and already toasted.
At this moment I stopped to wonder if it was the case to introduce these particular varieties of coffee in my thesis and I decided to focus only on the Huehuetenango Highland Coffee and on the Harenna Forest Wild Coffee.
The most shocking issue is that this coffee costs about 85$ per hectogram! Honestly speaking I've never tasted it, but I believe that it has really a wonderful taste if people are disposed to pay so much, but I must admit that this news completely floored me.
After a few minutes of shock I continued my research on the net and I decided to analyze in-depthly the "feces question".
It seems that this extravagant idea is widespread. In fact a Canadian businessman decided to invest a whopping 300 000$ to buy some Thailand elephants to produce coffee; here a question rises spontaneously, but seen the post's theme, it is rhetorical: how can an elephant produce coffee? Obviously through its feces, in fact the owner discovered that the elephants' digestive process is similar to the civets' one so, feeding its pachyderms with coffee plants with ripe cherries, their external skin was separated from the bean thanks to the elephants' gastric juice. In the end what "comes out" is a kind of coffee which is less bitter and already toasted.
At this moment I stopped to wonder if it was the case to introduce these particular varieties of coffee in my thesis and I decided to focus only on the Huehuetenango Highland Coffee and on the Harenna Forest Wild Coffee.
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