Blending Art and Science

Working with coffee- in any form at any stage- is always part art and part science. Science because you can … More

Personalidades de la Taza

En el mundo de la venta y compra de comodidades, como el café, todo se maneja con tramites y papeleria. … More

Don Tito is a known personality in Boquete, a small species of local celebrity. A visit to his farm and … More

Smart locals. These are the ones who spent their childhoods sweating on the family farm, but realized that their land … More

Growing coffee always requires a strategy, often one informed by understanding what’s happening the coffee world over. In Costa Rica … More

When the coffee is good enough, you don’t need caramel and pumpkin spice syrup (although those are pretty darn good … More

Coffee is in many ways comparable to wine (see Wine is to Coffee), but it separates itself as the more … More

About a month into my trip I was skyping with one of my best friends and he asked me, … More

If your coffee comes with a tag of organic or fair trade or single origin, do you believe it? If … More

To be a jefe, to be a don, you have to run something. Sometimes it’s a store, sometimes it’s a … More

Growing anything is difficult. To be a farmer you have to do a lot of work. To be a good … More

I spent 9 days living in a Ngöbe indigenous reserve in the Bocas del Toro province on Panama’s Northern Caribbean … More

Familiar– (adj) of or pertaining to family. Una empresa familiar. A family business. Coffee, at any stage in the chain, … More

Living a city that never sleeps in a highly developed nation in a fully globalized world, sometimes it’s hard to … More

When Coffee Speaks, it says, “hola Nueva York!” I’ll be in back in home sweet NYC for a week in … More