From Where Does The Most Expensive Coffee Come From?!

Coffee kopi luwak considers the best coffee in the world. It has a rich, heavy flavour with hints of caramel or chocolate. Also, it is the most expensive coffee. Its price ranges between 200 to 600 $ per a pound. It is difficult to find its beans everywhere. Sometimes, you can drink in coffee shops where the price of a small cup is 46$.

BUT HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE?

Did you discover the reason?

This expensive coffee does not come to us immediately form the beans' trees. Instead, they take a long process before we drink them. The beans come out of a mammal's digestive system. These mammals, Asian Palm Civet, carefully choose their food. They eat vegetable and sometimes meat. These little mammals live in trees and one of their favorite foods is the red, ripe coffee cherry. They eat this fruit but it does not get digested in the animals' digestive system. The beans go through many processes inside these animals' cavities. The enzymes break down some proteins, which give the coffee its bitter taste. That is why they have a unique flavor.


Most of these coffee beans are found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Ethiopia. Workers collect them from forests. They take the beans and clean them. Then, they give them a light toast in order not to destroy the complex flavor that has developed through the long process inside the mammals' digestive system. Finally, they pack the beans in fancy boxes. So, they can be ready to be shipped to other countries.

BONNE PETIT

WHO IS RASPUTIN

A biography documentary, The Bad Monk, was very gripping and interesting. It tells a story of an unusual doctor, Rasputin. Nevertheless, he is considered the most devilish man in the Russian history. This story happened over two hundred years ago. He had both powers and influence, from curing people and animals to a consultant in the royal family. However, many people did not like him. His life had different stages. I am going to divide his life to three stages; his early years, middle years, and last years.

Rasputin’s early years began when he was born in 1869 in Siberia. He was raised like a normal child, working in fields and taking care of cattle. At that time, people began noticing that Rasputin had something special hidden within him, he was gifted the power on healing. This gift led the villagers to bring their animals to him to cure or bless them.

In his middle years, Rasputin was very sexuality active. Even though, he got married, he was still a playboy which led his wife to say that he was a man for more than one woman. Despite of his problems, he had three children from his wife. Because of his behavior, his family didn’t accept him so he had to leave the village. Quickly, he moved to be among high society level. He met the royal family of Russia, Zare Nicolas and his wife Dozalin Alexandra, but they didn’t know that this meeting would lead to their doom. During that time, the royal family was hiding a secret; their son was fighting a deadly disease, hemophilia. The son become very sick and no body could treat or even help him. This changed when Rasputin helped him the son. This paved the way for him to become a consultant to the queen, and the queen got emotionally attached to him.

In his last years, Rasputin’s reputation became so bad that the royal family decided to kill him. However, killing him wasn’t as easy as they thought. They desperately tried several times by several ways, but he did not die. The first time was in a train by his x-lover, she stabbed him thinking that he would die. The second time was by a prince from the royal family, but Rasputin did not die. In the third time, Rasputin died. The royal family thrown him into a river which caused him to freeze and die. Before his death, Rasputin wrote a letter telling that if he got killed by the royal family, the royal family would die within two years. It was only 14 months later, where the Zare, and all the royal family including their children were tragically killed.

ICLAND AND NEWFOUNDLAND

I saw a documentary and I wanted to share it with you. I summarized it.
Two islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean. The first one, Iceland, is an example to a very positive isolated country that has succeeded, developed, and improved. It is considered also one of the richest countries. On the other hand, Newfoundland is like Iceland which has the same resources, yet it went to another movement. In fact, it is the second poorest state in Canada even though they have the same geological formation. WHY IS THERE A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM?

Since the beginning, the two islands have gone in different directions. When Iceland declared its independence in 1944, Newfoundland joined Canada and became a province in 1949. Later, Iceland has become part of the European Union growing economy, while it is highly unlikely for Newfoundland, which has won baby bonus, age pensions, and orange juice and coca molt for children as being a part of Canada. While Iceland has its own language, which is called Icelandic, Newfoundland lost its language and adopted English. Today, Icelandic people are placing great faith on their small island and feel proud of their products, and everything in their small shops has been locally made. This is opposite to Newfoundland.

The two islands have the same geographical structure; they are isolated rocky islands in the far north edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Their only way to the outside-world is the sea. At the same time, the sea is their economical resources, due to the fact that it is difficult to grow any thing in their lands. Even though Newfoundlander taught Icelandic fishing, they couldn’t fight for their own fish when Irish and England were fishing in their coast. However, Icelandic fought for their fish. When the British started fishing in their own coast, they cut their fishing nets. Today, Iceland is considered one of the biggest fish exporters in the world, yet Newfoundland can’t fish as a result of over fishing from other countries. Therefore, Newfoundlanders have had the option of moving elsewhere in Canada to find work. Icelanders haven't had the similar option.

Looking towards the future, it is interesting to note that the two counties have a bright future. That is going to happen if only Iceland kept moving and improving toward, and Newfoundland changed its attitude and behaved to which is better for its people not for what Canada’s government decides and wants for them.