The $10.00 coffee compared to India! She's not very big either!!!!!
We were warned before we arrived in Chile that coffee here is pretty bad. This seemed strange to us because when you think coffee, you think South America. Right!?!?! Well, before airplanes, Chile was isolated from other countries due to the Andes. So coffee that is grown on the other side of the mountains never made it! Instead, the British colonies had a larger influence and brought Chinese tea across the Pacific. So good coffee has not really caught on. The hot drink of choice is usually tea or Nescafe/Sanka instant coffee, which does not satisfy our coffee cravings.
Now, as many of you know, for a long time, I did not appreciate coffee. I didn't like the smell, the taste, anything. However, being married to a coffee lover/snob for 5 years, has really made me love a good cup of coffee. Actually, the only kitchen item we brought with us was a French press, so you can imagine our disappoinment when we found out that good coffee is hard to find.
So we have found a couple of Starbucks locations that, of course, have fantastic coffee. Also, when I went out to a grocery store in the suburbs, I found some Illy coffee that we could make at home. Any good coffee is super expensive - the 4.4 oz Illy can was almost $10.00 (US). This will have to be a special treat and not an every morning thing!
3 comments:
well, at least now we know what to send you from here! john loves that kind of coffee.
Good Gravy! That's expensive. I'll load up an alpaca with coffee beans and send it south for you.
Good news! Starbucks to the rescue-- after our ski trip on Sunday (pics forthcoming) we stopped at a Starbucks in the suburbs, and their beans are about the same price-per-quantity as in the states! We were told that Starbucks is just as expensive as the rest, but luckily that turned out to be untrue.
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