Coffee Culture · Coffee around the world
Africa, Asia and the Americas
The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony: Buna, and Why It Takes an HourGreen beans roasted in front of you, ground by hand, brewed in a clay jebena and served three times. The length is the point, not a side effect.
Kopi Luwak: What It Is, and Why We Do Not Recommend Buying ItThe most expensive coffee in the world is produced by an animal, graded by novelty, and almost impossible to verify. All three are problems.
Café de Olla: Mexico's Clay Pot CoffeeCoffee simmered with unrefined cane sugar and cinnamon in an earthenware pot. The clay is not decoration, and the sugar goes in before brewing.
Black Ivory Coffee: Elephant Coffee, Price and EthicsBlack Ivory is a Thai coffee made from cherries that elephants eat, sold for hundreds of dollars a pound amid unresolved questions about the animals.