Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.
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When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
I need a coffee, I'm a cold coffee guy. That's how I do.
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
Beans are a real go-to for me.
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
Don't buy preground coffee.
Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry it with me - and I ask hotels to grind it and brew it for me if I can't have it in my room myself. I'm dedicated that way.
Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee.