Few things in life are as pleasurable for me as stumbling upon a book and being exposed to a fascinating concept I had never thought much about before. In this case, the concept is the world of high-end specialty coffee. How it is grown, harvested, processed, brewed, and then rated is fascinating. The journey Mokhtar Alkhanshali endured to bring Yemen coffee to the rest of the world is filled with enough intrigue, plot twists, and brushes with danger to fill a summer action movie. But […]
Who knew importing coffee could be so dangerous?
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers