According to the International Women’s Coffee Alliance, more than 500 million people around the world are dependent on coffee for their livelihoods, and of those, 25 million are coffee farmers.
Costa Rica coffee has a unique taste. I just haven't been able to find that taste in other high end coffees. I am out of the good stuff from my last CR trip, and just can't bring myself to spend $20.00 a pound for it at Whole Foods. The classic world of Costa Rica coffee is changing, however, and rather radically. A newer generation of Costa Rican specialty producers has successfully injected variety into the predictable Costa Rica cup, often through unorthodox processing methods. Costa Ricans enjoy their coffee, if they can afford a cup. The North American average strength coffee clocks in at about $3 a cup. A daily cup of java would cost almost twenty percent of the average worker’s salary of $500 a month. Local ticos drink a much more diluted version with their typico breakfasts. fyL0Kaf.