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Stumptown: The Best Coffee in the World

January 18th, 2008 by Janera Soerel

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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…