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The history of coffee is fascinating. It intertwines cultures and values, and even the simplest recipes speak loudly about the people who harvest, roast, and brew coffee beans around the globe. For the Southern Europeans, the South Americans, Africans, and Middle Easterns, coffee is a matter of national pride; but the most exciting thing is that as rich as the history of coffee is, its future is even more promising than its past.  Globalization and the technological revolution has allowed all of us to enjoy fresher and higher quality coffee. The advances in biology and ecology have encouraged scientists to...

Coffee beans come from a cherry-like fruit. The bean itself is more of a pit than a bean when it first appears in coffee bushes. This fruit and later bean is quite sensitive and the way each lot is tended, the way cherries are picked, washed, dried, and roasted determines the aroma inside the bag. That is why coffee bags have such lengthy labels, and the more specialized it is, the more there is to say.  We’ve covered in this article how wide coffee production is and what a difference it makes. No bean is truly the same and the...

Known for its distinctive kick and incomparable strength, Café Cubano is a cultural staple as it speaks loudly about Cuban culture and Western history. The Cuban soil has always been ideal for coffee, but coffee only started being grown and brewed in Cuba by the end of the 1700s when the Haitian Revolution exploded and the French colonialists moved to Cuba. At the time, Cuban plantations consisted mainly of sugar cane. Once the French started growing coffee the mix of these two commodities gave birth to Café Cubano.  Directions,  Café Cubano must be made on a Moka pot or espresso machine....

Disney tends to stay true to local traditions and consequently, they included various scenes in Encanto of children drinking coffee. This subject is a hot take. Allowing children to drink coffee is for many considered a risky move, but in all reality it’s been done for a very long time. Not too long ago, coffee was ordered by doctors as medicine for various conditions even to treat children. Let’s not forget that Teddy Roosevelt drank coffee as a child under his doctor’s recommendations.  Apparently the caffeine was utilized as a supplement for a shot of adrenaline which help his asthma and...

Our goal has never been to simply sell coffee. We aim to create change and build a better world through high quality coffee beans. There are many layers to accomplishing this and our Catholic faith and personal commitment to love our neighbors is a core aspect of it, so here is the short story version of how we go about this.   Four years ago, I went on my first international mission trip and I’ll never forget the chaperone’s words: “This is one of the best gifts you will ever receive. The best thing about it is that it will...

The pandemic had us trying all sorts of exotic and yet simple coffee recipes. The Dalgona coffee had even coffee non-believers obsessed over what a few drops of hot water can do to instant coffee.  The relationship between coffee and cheese is quite a long one and interestingly, this recipe is used widely throughout the world. The Scandinavians and South Americans have been doing it for quite some time now and yet this trend has not really picked up in America. Have we even tried it? Perhaps someone in Wisconsin gave it a shot at some point?  While the idea...