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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.
Need a place to linger over a cup of coffee? The Juan Valdez coffee shop on Carrera 9, just next to the JW Marriott hotel, sits under leafy trees and has one of the largest outdoor seating areas of any coffee shop in the city.
At this coffee house, these baristas are not pretending. They’re truly knowledgeable - they do know all about Colombian specialty coffees.