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I want to think this is George Peppard with John Wayne and he’s saying “I agree, and I love it when a plan comes together,” but the movie Trouble Along the Way was made in 1953 and George Peppard was not working as a professional actor until 1956. He did work with John Wayne in How the West was Won in 1962. But who knows. Peppard would have been 25 when this photo was taken and he was an aspiring actor … and it really looks like George Peppard.

Patent drawing of Burns original roaster, December 1864 issue of Scientific American. Image: Internet Archive used under Creative Commons. I don’t know what the chances are, the statistical likelihood, but...

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...