day out with 686 Outerwear Women’s Outerwear Fashion Catalogue 2014; Models Kim, Mellissa and Creative Director Brent
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West Coast coffee roasting in a neighbourhood near you, Stumptown Coffee travels near and far to be in your cup.
Ten thousand years ago, the Coffea trees grew wild and tangly on the mountain slopes of southwestern Ethiopia.
There, you can still find people performing traditional coffee ceremonies many times a day—one woman will prepare it for the circle of her friends and family who stand around her. She roasts it in a pan, grinds it, pours hot water over it, serves it in the predetermined social order.
The Dutch traders brought cuttings of the plants to Indonesia. French missionaries spread it throughout Africa and across the sea to the Americas. This complicated colonialist past brought coffee trees into cultivation in every hemisphere on four continents.
In 70 countries, you will find those shrubs and their cherries. You’ll find the producers who tend them, the pickers who select them, the processors who obsessively convert fruit to bean. You’ll find the roasters who delicately transform them, and the people who drink the coffee.
You’ll find the earliest riser in the backpacking crew that stokes the fire and sets the water on to boil. You’ll find the barista who pulls the first shot of the morning for the go-getter. You’ll find the group of 70-year-old men in the diner at 6 a.m., spending hours discussing the issues of the day over their bottomless cups.
Everything that came before—the shrubs, the farmer, the journey across the sea, the hybrids and the mutations—is for this moment. Because the only thing required for the smallest, quietest and most personal of coffee ceremonies are some good beans and a way to brew.
You’ll hold that mug possessively. You’ll inhale deeply. And then you drink.
“We work with some of the most dedicated, innovative, and conscientious coffee producers in the world. What you taste is the result of a complex and deliberate process that began thousands of miles away, perhaps generations ago – tweaked and refined into something that was created precisely for your enjoyment. If we get everything just right, there is the possibility for that cup to transport you. “
—Katy Keisling, Green Coffee Sourcing Manager
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