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It’s 2014. Your family grows coffee in the highlands of northern Burundi. Your family has been growing coffee for generations because they were forced to grow coffee, long ago, by...

  Separate Ethiopia from coffee, the facts, and the lore, and the country remains one of the most fascinating regions in the world. Ethiopia is home to the oldest evidence...

      Clear Lake Coffee Roasters has important collaborations in the Mogiana coffee region of São Paulo, Brazil – no thanks to Napoleon. Coffee first came to northern Brazil early in...

Although coffee was first planted successfully on Java around 1700, cultivation spread slowly throughout what would become the great archipelagic state of Indonesia, and did not arrive on Sulawesi, then...

A Short Retelling of an Old Story An hour before you need to leave for the airport, there is a knock at your hotel room door. You open the door...

Indonesia is every sort of wet and always all kinds of “Basah.” Rain? Plenty of it, more than most places on earth. Humidity? Oh, heck yeah. Humidity will often reach...

Origin. Few words are as evocative in any context, but within the context of coffee, the word almost echoes, as if all the many hands that cause coffee to come...

In the 18th and 19th Centuries When Most of the World’s Coffee Came from the West Indies September 6, 2020 “The progress of the coffee industry in the West Indies...