No. 271 / September 1995

COFFEE
Spilling the Beans

• Editor's Letter

• The view from the valley
  David Ransom joins Gregorio Gomez and the coffee bean at the start of a long journey.

• Bonanza or bust
  Sweating over coffee on Pablo and Pamela's farm.

• Beauty and the bean
  Unspoken fears for the forest.

• Luis and Celestina
  What Gregorio thinks of a picture of his parents.

• A kind of violence
  Out of the valley, over the Andes and off to Lima.

• COFFEE -THE FACTS

• The boat, the roast and nutty mild Colombian
  Gregorio and the bean arrive in the belly of the beast.

• Simply... how coffee conquered the world

• Awe in the superstore
  From the citadels of consumption to a coffee bar in Soho.

• Enjoy! The well-informed coffee drinker's directory

• What's brewing
  David Ransom argues that change is overdue and fair trade is on schedule to bring it.

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• Letters
• Letter from Ingushetia
• Update
• The NI Interview with Juan Pablo Ordonez
• Reviews: plus Robert Phillipson classic
• Curiosities
• Endpiece by Sara Chamberlain
• Country profile: Pakistan

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