I have searched Goggle and found that coffee came to Martinique from
France. For a while Martinique dominated coffee production in the Western
hemisphere and then it was in Brazil. I guess getting coffee from these places was
cheaper than getting tea from India as Kat''s grandad asserted. You can read
this at:

http://www.italiancook.ca/coffee.htm

Bobby


> At least that's how my Texan granddad used to tell it. Maybe someone
> else who's more of an historian than I can tell you better.
>
> Kat
>