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Coffee Break 73: What is coffee? - Toshiyuki Ishiwata

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Did you know that there are more than 6,000 species of the coffee plant? We drink from only 100 of those.


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By Toshiyuki Ishiwata, Hisaaki Nagao

Presented by Junko Hirabayashi

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Did you know that there are more than 6,000 species of the coffee plant? We drink from only 100 of those.


Toshiyuki Ishiwata, a coffee-maker in Melbourne, talks about a wide variety of things about coffee.  In the audio, Toshiyuki goes back to the basics and tells us what coffee is.  

This story is a part of his Coffee Break series which goes to air at about 10:20pm every Saturday night.


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