A hundred years ago, half the world's coffee passed through São Paulo and its port, Santos. This is still one of the world's great coffee-producing regions, but the best beans are sent to Italy and France. Don't bother buying coffee in Brazil - unless you take a trip to one of the farms where the coffee is actually produced and intercept some of the good stuff before it is exported.
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