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Café Frío Boricua: The Puerto Rican Iced Coffee Tradition
Photo: Klientos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Café Frío Boricua: The Puerto Rican Iced Coffe...
Puerto Rico Coffee Renaissance (1950-Present)
Summary Since 1950, Puerto Rican coffee has become much smaller in land and in number of farms. I...
Café Criollo: The Traditional Puerto Rican Brewing Tradition
Summary For generations, much of the coffee made in Puerto Rican homes was café colao: coffee str...
Cafés of San Juan: A Coffee Shop Tour of Puerto Rico's Capital
Calle Fortaleza, Old San Juan. Photo: Ligocsicnarf89 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Summary Coff...
Puerto Rican Coffee Under American Rule (1898-1950)
Coffee pickers near Corozal, Puerto Rico, December 1941. Photo: Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security A...
Coffee and Longevity: What the Large Cohort Studies Show
Coffee is one of the most studied beverages in human nutrition science, and the cumulative eviden...
Puerto Rico Coffee Exports: The 1890s Peak to Modern Decline
Puerto Rico's coffee industry reached its export peak in the final decade of Spanish rule and nev...
Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico Coffee Recovery (2017-2022)
Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 as a Category 4 storm with sustained wind...
Yauco Selecto: The Premium Puerto Rico Coffee Brand
Yauco Selecto is a coffee brand, not a historical designation. It is a commercial name applied to...
Café del Futuro: Puerto Rico's Climate-Smart Coffee Project
Café del Futuro is a four-year, $15 million climate-smart agriculture project led by NCBA CLUSA a...
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The Old Yauco Coffee Estates: Corsican Merchants, Coffee Mills and the 1899 Collapse
Photo: Historic American Engineering Record / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Yauco is remember...
Coffee of Kings and Popes: Puerto Rico's Vatican Connection
Photo: M. H. (Martin H.) Zahner / Library of Congress, no known restrictions, cropped. Puerto Ric...
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony: The Birthplace Tradition
Photo: Abyssinian cat / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Ethiopian coffee ceremony, called je...
Cold Brew Coffee: Method, Ratios, and the Science of Slow Extraction
Cold brew is not iced coffee. Cold brew is coffee extracted slowly in cold water over twelve to t...
French Press: The Complete Immersion Brewing Guide
The French press is the most forgiving and the most misunderstood brewer in coffee. Done badly, i...
Water for Coffee: Chemistry, TDS, and Filtration
Photo: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Coffee is more than 98 percent wa...
Gooseneck Kettles: The Pour-Over Essential
Photo: Doğu Tuncer / Pexels, Pexels License. A gooseneck kettle is not an aesthetic choice. The n...