- Posted by Gazy
- Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:18
Colombian coffee, plus sugar and more: vintage footage
Slight change of subject.
Take a look at these vintage movies (1925 and 1936) about some regions of Colombia.
They show Manizales and a coffee farm, Cali, Bogota and several other cities.
The country around Cali and its sugar cane plantations and industry, etc.
Except for the hand-picking of coffee, everything else has been mechanized and modernized.
Another thing that has not changed is the teaching of coffee fundamentals to small children, in order to make them fully aware of the real value of being in love with their land and their crop.
As a matter of fact, there are several locations in the coffee regions where they host Coffee Pageants in which the “Queen” is not the most physically beautiful, but the girl who knows most about coffee.
Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAEV6os1pdM&feature=share
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Son Ton | Thu, 05/03/2012 - 14:47Thank you for sharing the link to these fascinating video. I find it very educational and teach me a lot about the history of coffee planting!
THEY MUST TAKE COFFEE VERY
hoonchul | Tue, 05/01/2012 - 22:27They must take coffee very seriously to have coffee pageants.. which is good thing for us!
WOW
jbviau | Mon, 04/30/2012 - 21:34What a trip! Love the bit about coffee pageants, too. I'm raising a future Coffee Queen here at home... ;)