This Week in Coffee

Research Monday I visited the Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education (CATIE), where Elias proudly gave me a … More

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Survey Answers Before landing in Costa Rica, I’d only seen one coffee plant: the one on display in the Tropical … More

Part of the job of any traveler is to be an ambassador for his/her home nation, so part of my … More

I had to plan an opening activity for a poetry unit I was teaching for an NYU class, and my … More

Living in New York I paid close attention to the weather, but it was usually to determine whether or not … More

Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” makes lots of interesting points, but one particularly interesting section is where he tries to tease … More

If New York City were in the tropics, all Starbucks would open onto hillsides filled with coffee, and patrons would … More

But back to the farm. After we’d toured the rows of coffee and the sugarcane planted above, Geraldo still felt … More

Sunday, I went to visit Maira’s family’s coffee/sugar farm the next “town” over. After walking down the mountain, halfway up … More

Last Sunday I hitched a ride and took two buses to a see the locals play a futbol game in … More

To ask someone to share stories of their life is a lot to ask, and it takes some semblance of … More

8 years ago, when I was 16, I left everything I knew in New Hampshire and went to live in … More

I’ve heard that the only places on earth unexplored by man lie deep under the ocean. I would argue that … More

Week one of my Latin American coffee odyssey: this is what it looks like on the ground. Sunday, I was … More