There Are No Slaves Here

The last night of my most recent trip to Panama I had a conversation that left me very perturbed. It … More

The Best Way to Go Broke

Yesterday I checked a big ticket item off my “being a freelancer in 2014” to do list: I got Obamacare. … More

Madame Geisha

Coffee can seem pretty straightforward as we sip it from our mugs; it’s a hot beverage that tastes good and … More

Coffee in Hand

I traveled to Chennai in south India a few years ago, and I was not prepared for the fact that … More

Intention of Integration

Vertical integration is like a go-go dancer: seductive to some, off-putting to others. In Panama, land of coffee celebrity and … More

Affinity

There are things that draw us in. There are places that we like to go and things we like to … More

Prophecies

Again and again people in Costa Rica told me some version of the line, “We wouldn’t have coffee here without … More

Rachel in Coffee Wonderland

Gonzalo Hernandez, proprietor and manager of Coffea Diversa Coffee Varietal Garden (aka Coffee Wonderland), doesn’t let a guest commence a … More

Why the Single Serve Wool Works

I actually do understand why single serve coffee systems can be useful to certain people in certain situations…and yet…and yet…there’s … More

Costa Rican Coffee: Spirit of a Nation

Costa Rican coffee doesn’t yield the volume of beans for export that other Latin American countries have to offer, but … More

Coffee Resolutions

It seems a little bit lame to make resolutions about coffee, but it also seems like cheating to have an … More

Updates from Coffeepeople

What started as an unconventional horizontal anthropological investigation into the lives of coffee producers from Nicaragua to Colombia has accidentally … More

Division of Decision

One of the greatest positions of power a person can be in is a position in which the decisions he … More

The Coming Back

Interviews are snapshots that freeze things as they are in a moment, and words on the page are stagnant; their … More

Ships in the Processing Night

There is no single method by which to process coffee. In fact, the only limit to the number of ways … More