t level since November 1994 when they averaged 153.33 US cents/lb.
1928: New Orleans is Credited with Creating the Coffee Break
New Orleans has long been a coffee city, with a history dating to the 18th century and owing to the city’s location at the mouth of the Mississippi River, making it a perfect distribution point for South and Central American beans headed for U.S. consumers. But in addition to supplying the nation with coffee, the city is also credited with supplying it with a new tradition: the coffee break, as documented in the 1928 book “Fabulous New Orleans” by author Lyle Saxon. “It is no unusual thing for a businessman to say casually: ‘Well, let’s go and get a cup of coffee’ as a visitor in his office is making ready to depart,” Saxon wrote. “It is a little thing perhaps, this drinking of coffee at odd times, but it is very characteristic of the city itself. Men in New Orleans give more thought to the business of living than men in other American cities. … I have heard Northern business men complain bitterly about these little interruptions for coffee or what-not.”
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