Wednesday, September 10, 2003


interesting new coffee website

it's the women in coffee website, formally called the women's international coffee alliance (wica).

you'll find it at womenincoffee.org. a handsome site for modern browsers -- if i do say so myself -- you can learn there about women's initiatives to alleviate the coffee crisis.

and also, you can discover great opportunities to travel "to origin." this is a coffee trade term for visiting the regions where coffee is grown.

the group will be giving great tours of coffee farms where you can meet the hard-working, sweet people who actually grow and make your daily coffee possible. they bring a yoga teacher along too!

and the women at origin last trip did yoga with everyone, i'm told. isn't that awesome? i would love myself to go on the january tour.

i think personally it's high time i went to origin. . .

anyway, women in coffee will very shortly have a listserv set up you can join and keep abreast of developments.

the site is also extremely interesting for the piece about the famed erna knutsen, "the mother of specialty coffee."

can you believe she was once a well-known runway model? today she's more beautiful than ever!

what an inspirational figure for all of us skirts who love coffee and the relationships it helps us build. . . with family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and the farmers far away.

and -- we here at bccy have to say it's about time -- the l.a. times runs its story about the scaa's c-member event and our american heroine, the best barista in the u.s.a., heather perry of coffee klatch in san dimas.

finally, everyone knows i love the da vinci syrup people. love 'em love 'em love 'em. so here's a big head-standing thank you to them for sending me a couple of bottles of sugar-free french vanilla. . .

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