Working with coffee- in any form at any stage- is always part art and part science. Science because you can…
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Personalidades de la Taza
En el mundo de la venta y compra de comodidades, como el café, todo se maneja con tramites y papeleria.…
The Miraculous Story of Don Tito
Don Tito is a known personality in Boquete, a small species of local celebrity. A visit to his farm and…
Tourism as Direct Trade
Smart locals. These are the ones who spent their childhoods sweating on the family farm, but realized that their land…
What If Everyone’s Special?
Growing coffee always requires a strategy, often one informed by understanding what’s happening the coffee world over. In Costa Rica…
Taste Perception
When the coffee is good enough, you don’t need caramel and pumpkin spice syrup (although those are pretty darn good…
Barista’s Burden
Coffee is in many ways comparable to wine (see Wine is to Coffee), but it separates itself as the more…
Why Coffee?
About a month into my trip I was skyping with one of my best friends and he asked me,…
In Coffee We Trust
If your coffee comes with a tag of organic or fair trade or single origin, do you believe it? If…
Dos Caras de la Moneda
To be a jefe, to be a don, you have to run something. Sometimes it’s a store, sometimes it’s a…
Grapevine Yields
Growing anything is difficult. To be a farmer you have to do a lot of work. To be a good…
Game Changers
I spent 9 days living in a Ngöbe indigenous reserve in the Bocas del Toro province on Panama’s Northern Caribbean…
Familiar
Familiar– (adj) of or pertaining to family. Una empresa familiar. A family business. Coffee, at any stage in the chain,…
New Under the Sun
Living a city that never sleeps in a highly developed nation in a fully globalized world, sometimes it’s hard to…
Faces and Flavors: Costa Rican Coffee in NYC
When Coffee Speaks, it says, “hola Nueva York!” I’ll be in back in home sweet NYC for a week in…
