Origin stories
Six countries, at length.
A bag holds about forty words of story. These are the rest: where the plant came from, who grows it, what happens to the cherry after it is picked, and why any of that reaches the cup.
Ethiopia
Every arabica plant on earth is descended from trees that still grow wild in these forests.
Colombia
A country narrow enough to cross in a day and vertical enough to harvest all year round.
Brazil
A third of the world's coffee, grown on ground flat enough to drive across.
Kenya
The most structured coffee country in Africa, and the loudest cup on the shelf.
Indonesia
Volcanic islands, a processing method found almost nowhere else, and a cup that divides the room.
India
Coffee grown in the shade, under pepper vines, and in one case deliberately left out in the monsoon.