Julia Alvarez is the co-owner of a small, organic coffee farm. Her firsthand experience with the difficulties of bringing delicious, nontoxic, shade-grown coffee to market have inspired "A Cafecito Story", a lyrical account of how a North American’s eyes (and taste buds) are opened to the global impacts of our love affair with java. "A Cafecito Story" is not a political or environmental polemic. Instead it is...
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