Peter Meehan wrote a fantastic article in the New York Times this week that encompasses three things that are dear to my heart: capitalism, coffee, and fair trade. Not necessarily in that order.
NYT: To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail
If you love coffee, it's well worth reading the whole thing. And a big shout out to Mr. Meehan for bringing CoffeeGeek.com to my attention!
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NYT: To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail
...Mr. Sorenson and a few like-minded coffee hunters around the country will go almost anywhere, do almost anything and pay almost any price in pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee. For people at Stumptown and friendly competitors like Intelligentsia Coffee Roasters and Tea Traders of Chicago and Counter Culture Coffee of Durham, N.C., long trips to remote farms for meetings without immediate payoffs are necessary steps in a much bigger goal: reinventing the coffee business.
If you love coffee, it's well worth reading the whole thing. And a big shout out to Mr. Meehan for bringing CoffeeGeek.com to my attention!
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