Byron Jerónimo. How a small-scale Guatemalan farmer is building a future thanks to coffee
La Fao ha aiutato i piccoli produttori di caffè del Guatemala a far fronte ad una patologia che aveva colpito le loro piante.
What use are Samantha Cristoforetti’s experiments
On board of the Soyuz space capsule, landed yesterday at 15:44 on the Kazakhstan steppe, there was the first Italian female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, who broke the record of Sunita Williams for being in space 200 days – 4 more than the above mentioned American fellow astronaut. We have learnt to know AstroSamantha,
Kopi Luwak or civet coffee, the world’s most expensive brew kills Asian palm civets
Per produrre il costoso caffè Kopi luwak gli animali vengono imprigionati, sfruttati e maltrattati.
10 songs with a coffee aroma
Bob Dylan – One more cup of coffee (Desire) “One more cup of coffee for the road, One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go” Ella Fitzgerald – Black Coffee “I walk the floor and watch the door And in between I drink Black coffee” Tricky – Black Coffee (cover) “And moody all the
9 foods to always be bought organic
1 Apples Apples are one of the food products to be treated the most with pesticides, resulting in chemical residues on the peel. 40 different pesticides have been identified. A Swiss study, published in the proceedings of the 25th International Horticultural Congress, found in organic apples a higher content of potassium (+31%) and phenols (+19%, mostly
Coffee: its pros and cons
Useful for those who want to stay awake and active, adored and appreciated for its intense ans sensual aroma, coffee is also infamous for the disorders it can cause to those who consume large amounts of it. The “cons” of coffee are widely known: depending on the sensitivity and the amount consumed, it can alter