Coffees from India and the Pacific: Timor | Coffee Reference
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Timor is another do-good, feel-good coffee that is gradually
becoming taste-good as well. As any newspaper-reading adult
knows, over the decades of the 1980s and 1990s East Timor -- a
former Portuguese colony -- underwent a bloody war of resistance
to Indonesian occupation, and eventually, at the end of the
decade of the 1990s, a brief but even bloodier spasm that led to
independence from its much larger neighbor. During the 1990s
international assistance organizations helped the East Timorese
revive their once famous coffee industry. Like most small-holder
coffees from the Malay Archipelago, East Timor coffees are grown
without chemicals, but Timors have the advantage of being
internationally certified as organic. They are wet-processed at
recently established wet mills or washing stations. Buying a
Timor coffee at this momen