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The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

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.

I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.