Elite brew exotic to the last dropping
November 18th, 2002 by Larry Burton
Now, I’ve had shitty coffee before but I’ve never paid a premium for the stuff.
The Indonesian palm civet — a catlike carnivore also known as a luwak — prowls the coffee plantations of Sumatra and eats only the ripest cherries from the trees. It digests the juicy red fruit covering the beans but not the beans themselves, which pass undisturbed through the creature’s gastrointestinal tract.
I’ll be the first to admit that I have eaten things that probably should have been left on the plate… or never put there in the first place, but this is not one of life’s finer things that I’m in a hurry to try.
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