From Christopher Bartram
I hope you will be interested to know that John Martinez, the US importer of kopi musang (the coffee made from beans that have passed through a civet cat’s digestive tract), was awarded the Ig Nobel prize for nutrition in 1995, so his contribution to relations between the common palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, and humans has been recognised for many years (7 August, p 24). More information can be culled from the Annals of Improbable Research or from its website www.improbable.com.
Marsham, Norfolk, UK
