As much as the best baristas in America can control a cup of coffee when the kettles are steaming and the scales are beeping, the fate of a bean is sealed far earlier, while still in its green state ...

Coffee is one of the most heavily traded export commodities in the world. It grows in about 70 countries, within a relatively narrow area just north and south of the equator. Broadly speaking, two ...

A number of factors affect the taste of your morning coffee (milk and sugar included — although that ubiquitous profile-altering duo is eliminated for the purposes of this article). For example: The ...