I grew up in a house with no coffee. There was no coffee pot on the stove, no coffee maker on the counter. There was no smell of coffee to wake us in the morning and no reason to sit around the kitchen table mid-afternoon. We ate our cookies with milk. And we considered ourselves normal. I want you to know that I did not feel deprived.
Winners of international coffee championships are rarely from coffee producing countries. Mauricio is determined to change that.
I had already asked Karen to prepare the coffee for us – Sierra Nevada coffee in the syphon method. It’s a fun coffee brewing method that uses fire and gravity and science. But Karen wasn’t going to start with the fun. She was going to start with our taste buds.
Warning: In this article about Colombian food you will find a high concentration of Colombian words that have no translation.
Update: While this restaurant is no longer open, the article does discuss typical Colombian food that you can try while visiting Colombia.
When one of your favorite chefs invites you over for a meal, you don’t say no. At least, I don’t. So when Leonor Espinosa invited me to try out Misia, her new restaurant in Zona G (the National Museum spot has been open for a year), I was quick to say Sí.
Like many people’s egos, this fruit is easily damaged, which makes it hard to ship far. It’s part of that lure of Colombia, those fruits that you might not be able to try elsewhere.