Posts Tagged ‘America’

DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEN AND ROASTED COFFEE BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES

_A brief history of the growth of coffee trading–Notable firms and
personalities that have played important parts in green coffee in
the principal coffee centers–Green coffee trade
organizations–Growth of the wholesale coffee-roasting trade, and
names of those who have made history in it–The National Coffee
Roasters Association–Statistics of distribution of coffee-roasting
establishments in the United States_

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THE COFFEE TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES

_The coffee business started by Dorothy Jones of Boston–Some early
sales–Taxes imposed by Congress in war and peace–The first coffee
plantation-machine, coffee-roaster, coffee-grinder, and coffee-pot
patents–Early trade marks for coffee–Beginnings of the coffee
urn, the coffee container, and the soluble-coffee
business–Statistics of distribution of coffee-roasting
establishments in the trade from the eighteenth century to the
twentieth_

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INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO NORTH AMERICA

_Captain John Smith, founder of the Colony of Virginia, is the
first to bring to North America a knowledge of coffee in 1607–The
coffee grinder on the Mayflower–Coffee drinking in 1668–William
Penn’s coffee purchase in 1683–Coffee in colonial New England–The
psychology of the Boston “tea party,” and why the United States
became a nation of coffee drinkers instead of tea drinkers, like
England–The first coffee license to Dorothy Jones in 1670–The
first coffee house in New England–Notable coffee houses of old
Boston–A skyscraper coffee house_

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