Coffee beans being roasted over a fire. (WNYC/Marianne McCune)
New York, NY –
Coffee wakes up millions of people every morning – and a lot of them are too groggy to think much about its flavor or its origin. But even in New York -- where weak deli coffee is still a staple -- there’s increasing interest in what are called specialty coffees.
Some connaisseurs are taking it one step further, and thinking about the farmers who grow the beans and whether they’re getting a fair deal. WNYC’s Marianne McCune has the first of two reports on a coffee project that combines taste AND trade. Part One is more about taste.
Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio (WNYC 93.9FM/AM820) and contributes regularly to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.
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