exploring the narratives behind coffee
“When I was twelve my family had come here [to Cedral] to pick coffee on a man’s farm. I dreamed—we came up here to pick coffee, and I could hear the cows and the calves and everything, because there used to be more dairies. And I dreamed of one day coming back, to be able to hear the cows, to come back here to live. I wanted to live here. I prayed to God that I could live here!
Al finales de octubre 2013 yo auto publiqué 400 copias de “When Coffee Speaks,” (“Cuando el Café Habla”) como la … More
At the end of October 2013 I self published 400 copies of “When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin … More
I grew up in New Hampshire, and about the age (3rd grade) that I realized what New Hampshire was, and … More
“Seed to cup” is the coffee industry’s equivalent of “farm to table,” a much used phrase intended to describe one … More
It’s Monday morning. It’s rainy and gray and dreary out. There are lots of coffees that claim to save the … More
“FROM GROUND TO GROUNDS” DAYLONG CELEBRATION OF COFFEE INCLUDES BUSBOYS & POETS NEW COFFEE LAUNCH, TASTING, PRESENTATIONS, AND BOOK SIGNING AT … More
I traveled to Chennai in south India a few years ago, and I was not prepared for the fact that … More
Again and again people in Costa Rica told me some version of the line, “We wouldn’t have coffee here without … More
Gonzalo Hernandez, proprietor and manager of Coffea Diversa Coffee Varietal Garden (aka Coffee Wonderland), doesn’t let a guest commence a … More
Costa Rican coffee doesn’t yield the volume of beans for export that other Latin American countries have to offer, but … More
What started as an unconventional horizontal anthropological investigation into the lives of coffee producers from Nicaragua to Colombia has accidentally … More
Part 3 of 3 in a series less about coffee and more about travel, culture, and living abroad. In order … More
Interviews are snapshots that freeze things as they are in a moment, and words on the page are stagnant; their … More
There is no single method by which to process coffee. In fact, the only limit to the number of ways … More
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