Cafe' Du Monde' coffee

I was walking around the town of Sierra Vista Arizona today looking for butane lighter fuel/ I wandered into a Vietnamese owned .99 cent store. I wandered around the store looking for the fuel and stumbled on an entire shelf of Cafe' Du Monde' coffee. About a million years ago my oldest brother took me on a tour of New Orleans and specifically Cafe' Du Monde' for javva and donughts. It is a good memory. I enjoy this coffee very much and the history of the cafe'.

http://www.cafedumonde.com/history

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History(Via Wikipedia)

The French brought coffee with them to the United States as they began to settle along the Mississippi. The French developed the chicory style of coffee during the civil war used at Café du Monde. Chicory adds an almost chocolate flavor to the Café au Lait. Along with this taste, the Acadians from Nova Scotia brought about other French customs, such as the beignet, to Louisiana in the 17th century. Unlike most doughnuts, beignets are squared pieces of dough with no hole in the middle, fried and most often covered with powdered sugar. Sometimes they can be seen served with fruit, jam, maple syrup or even savory items. At Café du Monde, they are served traditionally, with a thick covering of powdered sugar in orders of three.
The menu at Café du Monde is simple, as it only includes dark roasted coffee and chicory, beignets, white and chocolate milk, and fresh squeezed orange juice. The coffee is served black or au lait. According the Café du Monde’s VP, Burton E. Benrud, Jr., the beignets remain the only food item on the French Market menu and Café du Monde is committed to “keeping things the way they’ve always been: recipes have gone relatively unchanged.”
Café du Monde is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for Christmas Day and days when "the occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans", and is patronized by both locals and visitors.
Post-Katrina
Due to Hurricane Katrina, the shop closed at midnight on August 27, 2005. Although it suffered only minor damage, it remained closed for nearly two months. Owners took advantage of the low traffic time afterwards to refurbish the eating areas and kitchens. Six weeks after hurricane Katrina, Café du Monde began promoting its re-opening through Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald as a sign that the city’s recovery had begun. Over one hundred media outlets, including ABC’s Good Morning America, reported directly on the event. The opening of Café du Monde post-Katrina gave the city of New Orleans the boost they needed following the natural disaster. The French Quarter location reopened on October 19, 2005, to national media attention