• By the 1840s, New Orleans was the second-largest importer of coffee in the United States. • Today, New Orleans’ port shares its status as champion coffee importer with New York, accepting ...

By the mid 1850s, 62 million pounds of Brazilian coffee passed through the Port of New Orleans, second only to New York. Well, of course the coffee break was invented in New Orleans.

I found myself at Coffee Call, once again, on a recent Monday, and this happened because my day had begun, much further down I-10, in the French Quarter, in classic New Orleans style—with ...

Coffee culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, can be likened to DNA's double helix. One side of the helix is held in up by coffee, the other by chicory.