Stories

Each producer had their own reasons for seeking out the Café Delas program and all of them found the support they needed. 

When the word Quaker came into use to describe under-roasted coffee beans it happened because their color resembled the color of clothing that many Quakers were wearing at the time. 

“If a customer doesn’t leave with a good story,” he said, “we haven’t done our job.”

Once upon a time in specialty coffee, robusta was verboten, the enemy, bad bad bad. If robusta’s reputation hasn’t been exactly rehabilitated over the years, at least it’s no longer a dirty word.

A few excerpts from 25 years of coffee writing. It's almost unforgivably self-indulgent, I know, but I hope you'll forgive me anyway on my silver anniversary in coffee.

One green coffee trader, called to testify before the New York State Assembly in 1976, openly dismissed the questions he was asked as a "joke," saying the committee lacked a basic understanding of commodities markets.

Just a few years earlier, there would have been little if any coffee aboard the sinking Cuba, and it would not have been the best Central America had to offer. 

As might befit a volume that had taken 17 years to research and write—the first serious American book on coffee in 30 years—Ukers used most of the preface to acknowledge more than 100 institutions and individuals.

Think you know the Colombian Coffee Icon, Juan Valdez? Here are 10 things about the infamous Juan Valdez, and his impact on the specialty coffee industry.

This duality, the ability to absorb new ideas while maintaining traditional culture is understood to be a hallmark of many Mesoamerican communities.