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I heard it again not too long ago when I was with a group of Americans in a busy cafe in La Candelaria. A man across the table asked me a question that had obviously been weighing on his mind for some time. With a serious face he asked, “What do you think about cat poop coffee?”
When people find out I’m a coffee educator – I teach coffee at a university in Bogota, I wrote a book about specialty coffee in Colombia, and every week I teach visitors about why coffee in Colombia is so important to the country – they invariably ask me a question about coffee. It seems like everyone is filled with coffee questions they’ve never received an answer to, and they love to be face to face with an expert to get their itch for knowledge fulfilled.
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Today was an exciting day for coffee lovers in Colombia. The largest coffee fair in Latin America, Cafes de Colombia Expo, got off to a caffeinated start.
“Why do you love coffee?” I was in one of Bogota best specialty coffee shops. Light came streaming in the café on that sunny Bogota morning, and the intoxicating smell of freshly ground coffee made us all a bit dizzy. The tour guests crowded in to catch the barista’s answer to my question. Over the sounds of coffee cups clinking against saucers and the typical chatter of a busy cafe, the barista thought for a few seconds before answering. And what an answer he gave!