The Colombian and Guatemalan founders of Quintal Coffee explain how the coffee industry was 'stolen away from the origin.' They have plans to get it back.
what drew them to coffee and how Latin American countries need better representation in the coffee world.I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. And as you know, Colombia is a very important coffee country with a lot of coffee heritage and coffee history. So, I grew up around it, drinking it, enjoying it, seeing the different varieties, different farms, different regions in Colombia that would grow coffee. My grandmother has her own coffee farm in the coffee belt in Colombia.
“There’s a huge misconception that the coffee-producing countries don’t have the infrastructure to roast coffee, or the knowledge. So, people think that we are the ones planting the trees and picking off the cherries and that’s all we can do.”I agree with Eduardo. It’s something very important in our culture, like, it’s deep in our veins and something we can’t run away from. Yesterday, I was talking to a friend. I was telling her that all my life I saw my father’s struggles.
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