In the winter of 1979, shortly before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, my family went on holiday in Kabul. We were living in Pakistan at the time and, even though my English grandmother was visiting, my father wanted an adventure. So we piled into our old white Datsun, drove past the pine trees and boulders [...]
Francisco Javier Valle Garcia begins roasting at 6 a.m. every morning at Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Portland, Oregon. He’s only 23, yet he’s been roasting for nearly a decade. In his native Nicaragua, coffee is the chief export, and Garcia’s family has grown and harvested it for generations near Jinotega, the principle city in Nicaragua’s North Central Valley…
