Nicole Botello

A Definitive Deep Dive Into the World’s Favorite Daily Ritual Coffee is one of those rare global unifiers, a beverage woven so tightly into the fabric of human civilization that it has become ritual, identity, fuel, culture, and, occasionally, controversy. Whether you sip it, gulp it, worship it, or can’t stand the taste of it but still love the smell when someone else brews it, […]

Precious Arabica coffee is grown in open fields or planted beneath other, taller trees or crops, using their foliage as natural shade from the scorching sun. This growing method, called “shade farming,” produces a more pronounced and rich cup of coffee, while also preserving forests and soil fertility in coffee-growing regions. Coffee is a genetically shade-loving crop: when it was not yet cultivated, it was […]