I can’t even remember where it was now that we stopped for coffee on the motorway services… I think it may have been on the M4. maybe someone recognizes these posters. It was a fairly ordinary service area, the coffee place was rather gloomy, low ceiling, dark walls, no windows, but nice enough and clean… and I went to sit down while my husband got the coffee and whoa! Look at these dramatic posters!
They are advertising or celebrating different coffee growing areas; I didn’t know they grow coffee in Papua New Guinea but apparently it is the second largest agricultural export after palm oil, and has been grown on the island for nearly ninety years.
I had never heard of Sulawesi at all, it is an Indonesian island formerly called Celebes; Indonesia has grown coffee for over three centuries, so they are quite expert! Due to the ancient geology of Sulawesi, the coffee grown there has a very particular and distinctive taste, possibly die to the high iron content in the soil.
http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee/indonesia-asia/sulawesi
Ethiopia is the world’s seventh largest producer of coffee, and Africa’s top producer too (I would have thought it was Kenya, but I was wrong!) It is an ancient form of agriculture, and Ethiopia is where coffee originates from, maybe from as far back as the ninth century. Yirgachefe, or Yergacheffe as the poster says, is an area and town in southern Ethiopia.
http://www.ethiopianyirgacheffe.com/
Lois Elsden 