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Reason Magazine has published one of the more — well, reasonable — articles about Fair Trade I’ve read in quite some time.

It’s a lengthy piece and it covers a lot of angles, so it’s tough to grab a representative paragraph that doesn’t suggest the entire article has a single point of view… it doesn’t. But I was particularly struck by this observation:

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Four years ago I wrote this homage to New Orleans’ coffee traditions… clearly, it speaks to more carefree days in the Big Easy. Today, even these many months after the devastation of Katrina, it’s still difficult to grasp what’s been lost in New Orleans, and more challenging to imagine how the city will rise again… but rise she will. I’m certain.

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Like most everybody with an email address, I get a daily deluge of email offers to sell me mortgages, prescription drugs, and college diplomas… and while I’d love to paper my walls with non-accredited college diplomas in fantastic subjects — Semiotic Philology, Medieval Film Studies, Contemporary Coffeeology — these places …

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While lots of us look to a cuppa coffee for a little lift — a little pick-me-up, if you will — this is definitely taking things to a new level. Java Sutra, based in Portland, OR, claims its coffee will boost your libido as well:

The coffee is infused …

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I was fortunate enough to learn the fundamentals of cupping coffee at Barry Jarrett’s elbow. Of the many, many things I learned from Barry, one really tattooed itself on my brain, and it has to do with how our perceptions of aromas and flavors can be deceptive, and how …

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And the number shall be… three?

There’s a tried and true technique called triangle cupping that’s used to identify which of three coffees is different. (For you Sesame Street fans, it’s a game of One of These Things Is Not Like The Others.) You take two samples of one coffee, …

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