tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14961059998895759762011-04-21T16:36:45.165-07:00A blogsite on coffee, beverages in general, productivity, and lifeCafeTreohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101522689008745816noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1496105999889575976.post-64749299158796458332007-12-04T21:01:00.000-08:002007-12-06T01:19:44.325-08:00<div align="center"><span><span><span><strong><span><br /><br /></span></strong></span></span></span><span style="color:#ffffcc;"><span><span><span><strong><span><span style="font-size:180%;">keep quite, don't prattle</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span><span style="color:#ffffcc;"><span><span><strong><span><span><br /></span><br /></span></strong><strong><span>ah, how sweet coffee tastes!<br />lovelier than a thousand kisses<br />smoother than muscate wine.<br />Coffee, coffee, I must have it<br />and should anyone wish to give a treat<br />ah, just pour me some coffee.<br /></span></strong><span><strong><br /><br />4th arin (soprano) Liesgen<br /><br /><br />Music: Jonathan Sebastian Bach (1734/35)<br />Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici, 1732</strong></span></span></span></span><span><span><strong><br /><br /></strong></span></span><span><strong><br /><br /></strong></span><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TPimmHZKEjo/R1YxtlIdVoI/AAAAAAAAAHs/Rq3Ce9zE274/s400/groupbeans.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140350683821463170" border="0" /><span><strong><br /><span><br /></span></strong></span><div><div align="left"><span><span>Can you think how coffee became a popular beverage even in the 1700s that the likes of Sebastian Bach wrote music for a coffee cantata. Like coffee roasting, it is an art to bring out the best of the green beans to roasted beans and into your coffee cup. It takes a trained ear to know that is has produced an excellent music and it takes trained sniffing and tasting tongue to know that an excellent coffee beans would go into the cup.<br /><br />If whenever coffee beans buyers, roasters, and coffee shops bring excellent coffee into every cup, people who drinks them would be stimulated to think clearly and to be creative.<br /></span></span><br /></div></div><strong><span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></strong><strong><span><br /></span></strong><strong><span><br /><br /></span></strong><strong><span><br /></span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1496105999889575976-6474929915879645833?l=cafetreo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CafeTreohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101522689008745816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1496105999889575976.post-60308890663570940942007-12-03T20:48:00.001-08:002007-12-04T22:31:47.852-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TPimmHZKEjo/R1Tf8VIdVdI/AAAAAAAAAFg/afD9AWFgfE0/s1600-R/eProd.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139979302294345170" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TPimmHZKEjo/R1Tf8VIdVdI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QzIDEo4YEFU/s320/eProd.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Manila. From Nov. 24 thru 29, 2007, I attended the eProductivity Conference with Knowledge Management specialist Eric Mack. It was very informative days for me and I, in fact, was inspired to create this blog because of that conference. Interestingly enough is Mr. Mack's equation of Productivity. It is also a trio, here the formula:</span><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Productivity = </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Knowledge*Methodology*Technology<br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That equation is fully loaded...You can visit Eric's blogsite at www.ericmackonline.com</span><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1496105999889575976-6030889066357094094?l=cafetreo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CafeTreohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101522689008745816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1496105999889575976.post-30460887741982750742007-12-01T00:19:00.000-08:002007-12-03T19:37:48.876-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TPimmHZKEjo/R1THrVIdVZI/AAAAAAAAAFA/86VxfShgd1c/s1600-R/PICT0045.jpeg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TPimmHZKEjo/R1THrVIdVZI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Klh2Nzj2L8Y/s320/PICT0045.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139952621957502354" /></a><br /><br />Welcome! Guests and viewers. Coffee has been becoming interesting to me personally, professionally; Coffee has 850 aromatic components in each single bean. That is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">fascinating</span> work of nature.<br /><br />You see, the picture above shows how the coffee cherry is developed. The right beans to pick are the two pictures from the right side.<br /><br />Let me introduce to you that to make a very good coffee beverage, has three factors:<br /><br /><br />1.)<strong> <span><span style="color:#33ff33;">The Green Beans</span></span></strong><br /><br /><br />2.) <span><strong><span style="color:#ffcc66;">The Roasting</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br />3.) <span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The Beverage Preparation</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br />Also, the coffee beans comes from three regions, namely:<br /><br /><br />1.) <span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><strong>Latin America</strong></span></span><br /><br /><br />2.) <span style="color:#33ccff;"><span><strong>Africa/Arabica<br /></strong></span></span><br /><br />3.) <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span>Asia-Pacific</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span>I will stop from here and will like to hear your comments...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1496105999889575976-3046088774198275074?l=cafetreo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CafeTreohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101522689008745816noreply@blogger.com0