Whois & Analysis for cafebritt.com

Café Britt is a Costa Rican company that produces gourmet coffee, fine chocolate and specialty gift items.

They have 140 gift stores in ten countries (in Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and the United States) and an online store.

They create and sponsor coffee-related tourism and education in Costa Rica.

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

The genus Coffea is native to tropical Africa, and Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

The plant was exported from Africa to countries around the world and coffee plants are now cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.

The two most commonly grown are the highly regarded arabica, and the less sophisticated but stronger and more hardy robusta.

Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried.

Dried coffee seeds (referred to as beans) are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.

Roasted beans are ground and brewed with near boiling water to produce coffee as a beverage.

Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground.

It is made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block, or used as a flavoring ingredient in other foods.

Cacao has been cultivated by many cultures for at least three millennia in Mesoamerica.

The earliest evidence of use traces to the Mokaya (Mexico and Guatemala), with evidence of chocolate beverages dating back to 1900 BCE.

In fact, the majority of Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water".

The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air envelops the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150 °C (~300 °F) from an open flame, oven, or other heat source.

Roasting can enhance flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food.

Roasting uses indirect, diffused heat (as in an oven), and is suitable for slower cooking of meat in a larger, whole piece.

Gourmet (US, UK) is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, often quite rich courses.

The term and its associated practices are usually used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion.