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<title><![CDATA[Blue Bag Coffee Gourmet Mezclado de Altura:]]></title>
<link>http://bluebagcoffee.com/2011/08/26/blue-bag-coffee-gourmet-mezclado-de-altura/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sr. Ron</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Blue Bag Coffee es una mezcla de cafés de altura de selección europea de  Villacorzo &#8211; Jaltena]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Blue Bag Coffee es una mezcla de cafés de altura de selección europea de  Villacorzo &#8211; Jaltenango &#8211; Montozintla, <a class="zem_slink" title="Chiapas" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=16.41,-92.4086111111&#38;spn=1.0,1.0&#38;q=16.41,-92.4086111111%20%28Chiapas%29&#38;t=h" rel="geolocation">Chiapas</a> y de <a class="zem_slink" title="Huatusco, Veracruz" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.1488888989,-96.9661111211&#38;spn=1.0,1.0&#38;q=19.1488888989,-96.9661111211%20%28Huatusco%2C%20Veracruz%29&#38;t=h" rel="geolocation">Huatusco, Veracruz</a>.</strong></p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Blue's Clues" href="http://www.nickjr.com/blues-clues/" rel="hulu">Café Blue Bag</a> es café 100% Arabica orgánico de Altura,  de los altos de la selva crecido bajo sombra naturalmente en fincas establecidas por generaciones:</p>
<p>Envuelto en una manta de niebla y enclavado en la parte alta de la <a class="zem_slink" title="Sierra Madre de Chiapas" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=15.0436111111,-91.9030555556&#38;spn=0.1,0.1&#38;q=15.0436111111,-91.9030555556%20%28Sierra%20Madre%20de%20Chiapas%29&#38;t=h" rel="geolocation">Sierra Madre de Chiapas</a>, se encuentra la región de Villacorzo &#8211; Jaltenango, al sur de <a class="zem_slink" title="San Cristóbal de las Casas" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=16.75,-92.63&#38;spn=0.1,0.1&#38;q=16.75,-92.63%20%28San%20Crist%C3%B3bal%20de%20las%20Casas%29&#38;t=h" rel="geolocation">San Cristobal de las Casas</a>, y adentro de esta encontramos una de las fincas de Blue Bag Coffee situada a  +1243m  de altura. La nobleza de estas tierras brinda condiciones especiales para ofrecer un café con acidez remarcada, cuerpo completo e intenso con un delicioso aroma, con unas notas chocolatosas que da cualidades únicas de un café de especialidad . Hemos seleccionado una tostación media-oscura para suavizar y complementar la acidez y reforzar el buen cuerpo e intensidad y aumentar las notas chocolatosas.</p>
<p>Combinándolo con la altura de Huatusco, Veracruz (cerca de  <a class="zem_slink" title="Córdoba, Spain" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.8833333333,-4.76666666667&#38;spn=0.1,0.1&#38;q=37.8833333333,-4.76666666667%20%28C%C3%B3rdoba%2C%20Spain%29&#38;t=h" rel="geolocation">Córdoba</a>) dos fincas de Blue Bag Coffee situadas a 1000m y de 1200m de altura. Este Café Veracruzano tiene una fragancia y aroma a nuez almendrada y vegetales dulces, con una acidez muy dulce y cítrica dando el sabor de vegetal verde con almendras y dulce, con un cuerpo mediano y muy limpio. Usando una tostación mediana (para superar lo dulce).</p>
<p>La combinación de estas dos regiones se complementan perfectamente para dar un <a class="zem_slink" title="Café" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9" rel="wikipedia">café</a> de calidad suprema con cuerpo, acidez y un aroma extra-ordinario que nosotros llamamos BLUE BAG COFFEE GOURMET.</p>
<p>Café Blue Bag Arabica de Altura, 100% orgánico y puro tostado y empaquetado en grano o molido a su gusto:  250g.,  500g.  y 1kg.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Our Webstore - Buy Gourmet Organic Coffee Online!]]></title>
<link>http://bluebagcoffee.com/2011/08/10/our-webstore-buy-gourmet-organic-coffee-online/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sr. Ron</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Visit our Blue Bag Coffee online store: http://www.bluebagcoffeeshop.net FREE shipping within Mexico]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Visit our <strong>Blue Bag Coffee online</strong> <strong>store</strong>:</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Blue Bag Coffee - Follow Us On Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://bluebagcoffee.com/2011/08/01/coffee-factory-mexico-follow-us-on-twitter/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sr. Ron</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Follow Blue Bag Coffee on Twitter; https://twitter.com/#!/BlueBagCoffee Receive updates about our Pr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow<strong> Blue Bag Coffee</strong> on Twitter; <a title="Coffee Factory Mexico" href="https://twitter.com/#!/BlueBagCoffee" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/#!/BlueBagCoffee</a></p>
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<p>Organic Mexican Coffee freshly roasted and Tweeted to you!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dining Out in Cork]]></title>
<link>http://pandapeters.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/dining-out-in-cork/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peterspa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In the span of fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of Europe’s poorest countries to one o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">In the span of fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of Europe’s poorest countries to one of its wealthiest.<span>  </span>When walking through downtown Cork, one can easily count a minimum of eight cranes at work erecting various high-rise buildings.<span>  </span>The financial boom has had a significant effect on Irish cuisine as well.<span>  </span>In the not too distant past, Irish fare was best known for boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, boiled parsnips and generally bland uninspiring food.<span>  </span>While you can still find these mushy and less than savory items on menus in some restaurants, they are no longer the norm.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">County Cork has become well-known as a foody’s paradise.<span>  </span>Chefs have access to an abundance of fresh food here:<span>  </span>an impressive array of fish from the local rivers and ocean, local farmhouse cheeses, acres of potato fields and grass fed lamb and beef.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">It is a delight to have so many restaurant choices, but it can make quite a dent in the pocketbook.<span>  </span>Vegetarian soup, such as potato-leek or carrot-parsnip, served with one or two slices of brown bread is consistently the most affordable item on most lunch menus.<span>  </span>This meal usually runs around €4.<span>  </span>A simple sandwich with mayo, ham and cheese and a very small side-serving of salad usually costs between €6-8.<span>  </span>Most other items on the menu are €11 and up.<span>  </span>Dinner menus are even pricier.<span>  </span>It is almost impossible to find dishes for less than €15 for dinner, and most are €20 and up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">Ireland has become much more ethnically diverse in recent years.<span>   </span>The country’s booming economy and the recent addition of several Eastern European countries to the EU have turned Ireland into something of a melting pot.<span>  </span>At the Cope Foundation I work with a woman from Germany, two men from India, a man from Nigeria, and two women from South Africa.<span>  </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';"><span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">With this level of diversity in a city of over 120,000 people one would think that there would be a number of ethnic restaurants.<span>  </span>Poland has a particularly large community of immigrants in Ireland and, while there are many small Polish grocery stores, I have not yet seen a Polish restaurant in Cork.<span>  </span>There are several Chinese and Indian restaurants, but Mexican food is definitely a rare cuisine for the Irish.<span>  </span>One will occasionally see quesadillas on a lunch menu.<span>  </span>The pronunciation “Kay su dee ah” is sometimes put next to this item, which seems to indicate the lack of familiarity with this genre of food here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">Pat and I decided to try out the only Mexican restaurant in town for dinner on my first week of work.  <span>Several </span>guidebooks and a couple of locals had endorsed it with pride and raved about the good food to be had there.<span>  </span>Since enchiladas are my favorite dish, I decided to give them a try here in Ireland.<span>  </span>In America, all Mexican food meals begin with a complimentary bottomless basket of chips and salsa.<span>  </span>Here, a small basket of corn chips costs €2.<span>  </span>My enchilada cost €15, and it was a lone enchilada wrapped in a flour tortilla instead of the standard three corn tortilla enchiladas you usually get in the States…and no beans.<span>  </span>I absolutely love refried beans, so this was a bitter disappointment to me.<span>  </span>While the food was fine, it did not come close to the flavor and authenticity that can be found in so many Mexican restaurants back home.<span>  </span>At the end of the day, for two main dishes, no chips and salsa, and tap water to drink the meal cost $58.19 American.<span>  </span>To put this in perspective, <a href="http://www.cafemexicana.net/MenuMain.html">Café Mexicana </a>is billed as good value for the money here in Cork.<span>  </span>Ouch!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">The high prices here in Ireland don&#8217;t just affect the tourists.  Everything is expensive here:<span>  </span>restaurants, the price of homes, petrol, apartments.<span>  </span>This really hit home for Pat and I when we went to Glasgow in February.<span>  </span>We hadn’t exactly gotten used to the high prices in Ireland, but had started to resign ourselves to them.<span>  </span>After seeing pricey menus for so many weeks, it was a treat to be able to find affordable meals and entertainment. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';">Now that I am earning euros, I am sure that we will take advantage of the cuisine and culture that Cork has to offer on a more frequent basis.<span>  </span>I suspect, though, that we will feel more able to do so when we are touring about in other more affordable areas of Europe.</span></p>
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