Karen Attman

Mauricio Romero, national barista champion

Colombia’s National Barista Championship 2015

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:November 9, 2015
Post category:Coffee in Colombia

The 2015 Specialty Coffee Expo took place from October 15-18 in Bogota. About 13,000 visitors came to taste coffee from around the country. This annual fair is organized by the National Coffee Federation of Colombia (Federación Nacional de Cafeteros (FNC) and is the most important coffee fair not only in Colombia, but also Latin America and the Caribbean. This fair also hosts Colombia’s National Barista Championship.

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Monserrate Bogota Colombia

The New Colombia – Expat Life in Bogota

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:November 4, 2015
Post category:Tastes of Colombia

The Expat Chat is all about travel and the expat life, and how people have done it – how they’ve changed everything and gone off to live in another country. And how they’ve made it work. And why they like it. The Expat Chat recently interviewed the found of Flavors of Bogota in an episode called The New Colombia- Life after Drugs (which refers, not to my past life, but to Colombia’s emergence from its drug-dominated reputation).

Business on a Bike in Bogota

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:October 15, 2015
Post category:Colombian ingredients Free coffee resources

Nancy, a 30-something woman from Bogota, is on her way to work.

Under a sunny Bogota sky, she’s mounted on a motorcycle that is large for her small frame. On the highway headed north, she twists and turns through mid-morning traffic, narrowly missing getting hit by taxis and buses plowing through the heavily congested lanes.

Almost on the outskirts of the city, she turns right into the parking lot of a shopping mall. She parks her motorcycle in a central area and places the helmet on the seat. She opens the metal box attached to the back of the seat, and unfolds a giant green umbrella to shade her while she works.

Nancy is open for business.

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What Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards have to do with Colombia

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:September 29, 2015
Post category:Restaurants and cafés in Colombia

Often called the Oscars of the restaurant world, the 50 Best Restaurant awards highlight the best restaurants around the world. Starting in 2013, Latin America had its chance to shine in the limelight with the.

A Word about COP (no, not policemen – the Colombian peso)

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:July 15, 2015
Post category:Free coffee resources Tips for visiting Colombia

One of the funny things about living in another country is that you discover just how much money shifts, changes, and simply dances about all the time. Before moving to South America, the dollar was just the dollar to me. Sure, there was some inflation, but I never worried about it.

Then I arrived in South America and I continuously heard “the dollar went up,” “the dollar went down,” and I thought, “The dollar doesn’t move around that much, does it?”

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