Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Where does cherry-flavoured coffee come from?


Problem
Should you drink coffee or water or tea when travelling? How much?

Answers
Photographer Trevor Sharot likes coffee. He even often travels with a camping coffee machine. He wrote to me: 
"In Java Java, not far from Kawah Ijen, (Indonesia) (not Timor as I said yesterday) we stopped at a coffee producer (that belongs to the brother of one of our hoteliers) and drank this made from the discarded husks of the coffee beans. Didn’t taste of cherries as suggested there, but astonishingly good tea."

A BBC2 radio programme tells you what makes a good coffee pot, ideally not metal, which gets hot. Unless you are making cold tea (not black, but green or other tea). 

USA
Americans in the hot South of the USA like iced tea.

You can get the coffee cherry tea, called cascara, in the USA in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle and LA. Starbucks sometimes has cascara latte. 

Not to be confused with cherry tea made from cherries. On the other hand, you could compare them. 

Useful Websites

indonesiatourismboard.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cherry_tea
https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/sipping-coffee-in-the-republic-of-coffee
Cascara cherry tea from Mexico, £5, postage free, from Mexico, on eBay:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/232776512782?chn=ps&var=532288931609

From Amazon At £8.50, plus postage, or postage free with some orders over £20 for Prime members.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carabica-Cascara-Kirschen-Organic-Arabica/dp/B01FWAD3II/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1533069800&sr=8-1&keywords=cascara+cherry+tea

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

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