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What’s the Deal with Coffee?
It’s that sweet, sweet nectar you fill your cup with in the morning.
That feel of the beans in your fingers as you put them into the grinder. How they slide against one another, the smell you can taste as you bring it to your nose. Then you dump them all into the container and press the button. The whir of the blades as it crushes the beans into fine dust, ready to be brewed. Add some water to the kettle, press start. Put the dust of beans into the french press and wait. Check your phone, check the time, read some news while the water boils, it takes time. Once finished, you put the phone down and mix the hot water with the dust of coffee beans then wait another few minutes to brew. This process takes time, but when done right the smell and taste to jumpstart your morning.
Coffee is a hot commodity around the world. It’s globally traded on an outstanding scale, and the number of middlemen to get coffee to your cup is astounding. There are some new grounds in the trade, such as free trade, that promotes fair wages across all the workers. From the pickers of the beans to the resellers at the stores, when they participate in fair trade wages, they are treated equally. On average, a coffee shop owner makes about 40–50k in revenue per year. Quite small as they have to compete with large brands such as Starbucks, Seattle’s best…
