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"I just purchased a package of your espresso ground coffee and I have to say it's the best espresso that I've tasted yet. I'm also happy that the coffee is organic and fairly traded and a local product as well. I plan on trying the other coffees that you offer. I bought mine at the Loeb on Bank St. in the Glebe. Thank you for bringing these products to market."

"We have been ordering Equator Coffee at St. Joe's for over a year. We order 10 - 15 lbs. a week and we sell the coffee at all our masses at the back of church. We have done extremely well by Equator. Last year, we raised over $1300.00 through our coffee sales. This money was sent to assist one of our former pastors with his Mission work in Guatemala. The coffee sells so well because it is so good and people are happy to pay a little extra to get such wonderful coffee. The service has always been great! The Christmas Packages are very popular and we look forward to selling them again this year. This has been a great partnership!"

"As an amateur of fine coffee, my day is punctuated with thoughts of the "perfect cup". I am a self-dubbed coffee snob and darn proud of it. It wasn't until I tried my first cup of fresh-roasted, fresh-ground Guatemalan from Equator Coffee that I realized what a truly great cup of coffee actually is!"

Other notable quotes:

"Behind every purchase is a producer;
Behind every action, is a decision.
Your choices should be thoughtful and meaningful;
Our choices as a global community should be deliberate.
Our choices will affect a seemingly shapeless, formless global economy.
Our decisions can create equity for men, women, and children in countries we may never even visit.
We have the opportunity to create partnerships for the future.
Fair trade works."

"Coffee has only one value, to give the consumer pleasure and satisfaction through flavour, aroma and desirable physiological and psychological effects."

"Pope Clement VIII, who died in 1605, supposedly tasted the Moslem drink at the behest of his priests, who wanted him to ban it. "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious," he reputedly exclaimed, "that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.""

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote this humorous Coffee Cantata in 1732, in which a daughter begs her stern father to allow her this favourite vice:

"Dear father, do not be so strict! If I can't have my little demi-tasse of coffee three times a day, I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat! Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee, and if anyone wishes to please me, let him present me with - coffee!

Most Expensive Coffee in the World

The Indonesian coffee, Kopi Luwak, sells for $75.00 for a 1/4 pound, partly because of its rarity but also because of the way it is processed. The beans from which it is made are injested by a small tree dwelling animal called the Paradoxxurus before being extracted from the excreta of the animals and made into Kopi Luwak.