Lauraville NewsLocal news for Lauraville (Baltimore, MD) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Great coffee, unlikely source- January 15, 2008 "I was intrigued more by the price" As any coffee connoisseur knows, the world's most expensive bean comes from the unlikeliest of places: a cat's behind. That's right, the beans used to make Kopi Luwak coffee - which sells for upward of $200 a pound - are ingested as cherries by a Southeast Asian cat called the palm civet and harvested from the feline's feces. Who came up with the idea to do this is anybody's guess. But Thomas and Amy Rhodes, owners of Zeke's Coffee in Lauraville, wanted to...http://www.topix.net/city/baltimore-md-lauraville/2008/01/great-coffee-unlikely-source?fro... |