
The Coffee Palace
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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The psychology podcast with scott berry Kauffman is out now Listen and follow along and stitcher apple podcasts Pandora or wherever you get your podcasts. The first coffee beans to make their way into Brazil were at the center of a love triangle A Portuguese sergeant was stationed in french guiana and he was tasked with smuggling these coveted beans into Brazil. He got cozy with the wife of a local politician and she gifted him a bouquet laced with coffee seeds According to the legend these would become the very first seeds of Brazil's booming coffee industry.
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