You sit nicely enjoying a cup of coffee in a famous coffee shop. Slowly you drink it to feel the chest cavity. It feels left in the sky of your tongue, stalked in your throat. The bitter taste that you can feel is the opposite of the life bitterness. That sensation probably make the coffee expensive. That sensation also what makes every civilization in the world has it own coffee tradition.
But, do you know how coffee is served in front of you? Do you know the story behind a cup of coffee you are enjoying? How it can be arrived in your city with the most beautiful packaging?
It all begins from a patch of garden in the plateau of Gayo-Aceh, in a remote corner of Parana-Brazil, Uganda, Ethiopia, Vietnam or from a land that it named you never heard.
The farmers protecting their plants from pests, picking and sorting the beans. Then the coffee broker will come and offer the price. Often the price offered doesn't match the farmers’ sacrifice. Drained energy and the burden of the mind to survive from the extreme nature where they live. That never paid off, even by the price of the coffee you’re drinking in your entire life.
Here, in a fancy cafe you sit among the rich. The waiter has just brought you a cup of the best espresso. Then you drink it slowly and carefully. You are enjoying the bitter but tasty sensation like a man fondling his lover the first time.
But, do you know the story behind the cup of coffee you are enjoying? Perhaps you have thought about it, but then you forgot it for the taste of coffee that is too delicious.