Throwback Thursday

Coined as a result of social media, Throwback Thursday (#tbt) was born. Typically, I don't participate in such activities, but I was cleaning out my albums, and blow me down, it was a blast from the past one after another! This resulted in me photo texting these classical pictures. I surely found some interesting picture that the owner would cringe in seeing and thus request obliteration of such article. All in good fun....the bright side to cleaning up.

It takes us a while to finish up a bag of coffee. We finally finished the one we bought from Costa Rica. I opened a new bag today, also from Costa Rica. This blend is 100% Arabica coffee from Cafe Santa Marta, which is a Farmer-Direct. What does that mean? It means that the Farmer-Direct coffee comes directly from coffee farmers who grow coffee, harvest it, remove it from its pulp, sundry them, mill them, where there it no middle man. Essentially you know the coffee's origin. It is sustainable. These Farmer-Direct bag support the families and communities where the coffee came from. If you are a coffee enthusiast you can read more about them here.

This is the coffee that we are going to be drinking until we finish up this batch. It is a Peaberry Coffee.

Peaberry coffee comes from a single bean from the coffee fruit. Usually there are two beans. It is smaller in size than regular coffee beans. Some consider this to be of higher quality; for it is a rare and natural variation from the usual Costa Rican coffee bean. It yields 3-5% of the entire crop. It is more robust and intense, aromatic and smoother than the regular Costa Rican Beans.