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Amor Perfecto coffee house in Bogota

Coffee Perfection at Amor Perfecto

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:November 23, 2015
Post category:Coffee in Colombia Free coffee resources Restaurants and cafés in Colombia

You’ll realize this place is about coffee education when you step through the front door.

My Colombian Kitchen: Granadilla

Post author:Karen Attman
Post published:November 16, 2015
Post category:Colombian ingredients

This is one of my favorite Colombian fruits, although you wouldn’t guess it by the description I’m about to give you.

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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