Friday, October 28, 2005
The Kopi Luwak Coffee
All right now, this is going to get a little gross for most of us. When I first heard of it I thought it was a joke but I researched it and found it to be true. There is a "gourmet coffee" that gets its flavor by passing through the digestive system of a wild animals.
The Kopi Luwak is supposidly most expensive coffee in the world. The beans are passed through an Indonesian wild cat known as a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia (people have mistakenly called them monkeys). Coffee pickers then pick them up as they excrete them whole without any dung.
Most of the beans are sold in Japanese buyers. Experts believe the wild cats give the drink a unique earthy taste and say it smells musty.
Yuck!
If you don't need to impress your high-brow friends stick to just fine gourmet coffees.
The Kopi Luwak is supposidly most expensive coffee in the world. The beans are passed through an Indonesian wild cat known as a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia (people have mistakenly called them monkeys). Coffee pickers then pick them up as they excrete them whole without any dung.
Most of the beans are sold in Japanese buyers. Experts believe the wild cats give the drink a unique earthy taste and say it smells musty.
Yuck!
If you don't need to impress your high-brow friends stick to just fine gourmet coffees.
