Latin American Coffee Story

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In the history of the development of coffee in the world, love, religion and war have always played a role quietly at key points. And the best of all is love.

Coffee love story

The mellow smell of coffee in Latin America

What does love bring to the global development of coffee? Love did two things. First, it started coffee cultivation in Latin America. Second, it has created Brazil, the world's largest coffee grower.

The story goes like this. That year (1714), the Dutch gave the French government a high-quality coffee seedling, which was worth a lot of money. The king of France was so rare that he planted it in the greenhouse of the royal family in Paris, bred it, and kept it day and night. But nine years later (1723), the opportunity for coffee came.

The king has a mistress, and the king's mistress has another lover. The lover of the king's mistress was a young captain officer (Gabriel Mathieu de Klee) who hooked up with the king's mistress before leaving Paris to serve in Martinique (the French colony). And succeeded in getting a coffee sapling from the greenhouse of the royal family in Paris. Then, Comrade Captain did a very important thing. That is, across the Atlantic, the coffee tree was planted on the island of Martinique.

I don't know if it is because of the power of love, or if this friend knows in his heart that he can make a fortune in the future by keeping this coffee tree.

Along the way, it was a hardship. He watered the saplings with his own fresh water in the vast Atlantic Ocean and fought bravely with the pirates. At the same time, he KO a Dutchman who tried to stop him from taking the coffee tree away. The evil Dutchman was also very funny. He even killed the coffee tree. He even ripped off the leaves of other people's coffee trees.

Finally this coffee tree took root in Martinique. Today, most coffee trees in Latin America may come from this coffee. And most of the world's coffee supply can be traced back to this tree. Now a memorial statue of the captain has been built on Martinique. I just don't know what happened to the king's mistress.

Martinique-the overseas region of France, located in the northernmost windward archipelago of the Antilles, the island has beautiful natural scenery and was once described by Columbus as "the most beautiful country in the world".

The story continues. Coffee is grown in Martinique, which is just the beginning of coffee cultivation in Latin America, and there is another dog-blooded story that Brazil can become the world's largest coffee grower.

In that year (1727), there was a border dispute between French Guiana and Dutch Guiana, and the governors of the two territories tore up. Of course, the Europeans are more polite, and they really don't understand, so they discuss and say, "Let's find a middleman." So they brought in a Brazilian official from the neutral Portuguese territory to mediate. The Brazilian official's name is Francisco de Melo Pachta. My brother gladly agreed.

I don't think Brazilians agree to go because they are happy to help others. This guy knows that both families have coffee trees. He's definitely headed for coffee. As a result, my buddy went to mediate for others.

Border disputes are very hypocritical in the first place. The Brazilian brother was busy making peace at the border while hooking up with the wife of the French governor. Soon, the border settlement plan was straightened out. The wife of the French governor also hooked up.

So when Pachta was ready to leave, the wife of the French governor sent him a bouquet of flowers with fresh and full coffee seeds hidden in the flowers (too TM waves). The Brazilian brother is dead! The seeds were brought back to Barra in northern Brazil and quickly spread to southern Brazil, which eventually became the world's largest coffee producer.

This is the end of the story, love is also good cheating, coffee is, after all, through the spring breeze of love from Europe to Latin America. After all, this has promoted the global impact of coffee.

Every coffee lover should pay tribute to the romantic French wives!

Without them, we may not be able to drink such romantic Latin American coffee!