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Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup

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Coffee is among the largest and most valuable commodities on this planet. This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award–winning writer of Darjeeling.

Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia are the original home of Arabica, the most prevalent and superior of the two main species of coffee being cultivated today. Virtually unknown to European explorers, the Kafa region was once essentially off-limits to foreigners well into the twentieth century, which allowed the world’s original coffee culture to develop in virtual isolation in the forests where the Kafa people continue to forage for wild coffee berries.

Deftly blending in the long, fascinating history of our favorite drink, award-winning writer Jeff Koehler takes readers from these forest beginnings along the spectacular journey of its spread world wide. With cafés on virtually every corner of every town on this planet, coffee has never been so popular–nor tasted so good.

Yet diseases and climate change are battering production in Latin The us, where 85 percent of Arabica grows. As the industry tries to safeguard the species’ future, breeders are returning to the original coffee forests, which are under threat and unexpectedly shrinking. “The forests around Kafa aren’t important just because They’re the origin of a drink that means so much to such a lot of,” writes Koehler. “They’re important because deep in their shady understory lies a key to saving the faltering coffee industry. They hold not just the past but also the future of coffee.”

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