Crappucino anyone?
Blork told me last week about these funky looking cat/monkeys whose droppings are used to make the most expensive coffee in the world. These animals climb up trees to eat the coffee cherries, which they are unable to digest. Someone waits for the cherries to pass through the animal’s digestive system and picks up the coffee beans from their droppings. According to this CBC article, the enzymes in the animal’s stomach add « something unique » to the coffee’s flavour through fermentation. The beans are thoroughly cleaned and then roasted at 249 degrees C.
This upscale grocery store in Edmonton is testing whether its customers will shell out $600 per pound for this delicacy.
But is it fair trade coffee? ;-)
I got Blork a new book about food from all over the world, and we found out that Moroccan goats climb trees as well to get to the berries. Local women (of course) pick up the undigested berries from their droppings, this time to make a stinky kind of oil, used for food, skin and lighting. Check it out, it’s quite a sight.
So what’s next? Nutella from squirrel poo? Shark’s ass sushi?
