Coffee Ceremonies From Around The World Chapter 2 Turkey

We now travel to the country of Turkey. Turkey is located partially in Asia and partially in Europe, making it geographically very unique. To the west lies the Mediterranean and Greece and to the south is Syria. Coffee seems to have arrived in Turkey in the 16th century (Ottoman Empire) and has an intrinsic fingerprint […]

Coffee Ceremonies From Around The World Chapter 1 Ethiopia

Let’s start in the region where coffee was born, Ethiopia. This country can be found in the northern part of Africa across from Yemen. Ethiopia has a long standing history with coffee, so it’s no surprise the coffee ceremony has developed as a great reverence for the bean the world has come to cherish more […]

Bird Friendly Coffee

Calling birdwatching coffee drinkers, naturalists, earth guardians and  lovers of air and sky! This is a conscious message going out into the “field” to once again support shade grown coffee crops. You may have read my blogs on shade grown coffee and on our coffee tour to Brazil. Shade grown coffee is the clearly sensible […]