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From the rear end of a pheasant, Brazil’s best coffee

By Florian PLAUCHEUR In Brazil, the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg is in reality something closer to a pheasant that excretes coffee beans. At the Camocim coffee farm, deep in the bucolic hills of Espirito Santo state in Brazil’s southeast, jacus — a type of pheasant native to tropical forests there — are considered some of the most astute pickers (or rather, eaters) of coffee cherries. “He chooses the best fruits, the ripest,” […]