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  little brown bean
starbucks in papua new guineai looooooooooooove coffee. ahahahaha. but the book i started reading about sits waiting on my shelf, half-completed, "uncommon grounds: the history of coffee and how it transformed our world." i like reading about how colonists razed hectares and hectares of south american and caribbean land and turned them into cocoa and sugar plantations. it reminded me of jamaica kincaid's "a small place," and her echoing, unwavering anger. contrast blistering kincaid to mark pendergrast's opening paragraphs: he pops a fresh coffee cherry into his mouth, his tongue separating parchment from beans. flavor explodes and melts around his tongue. how bitter it tastes, brittle like its shell. how earthy the plantation smells, how endless. all this in the central american twilight, at the mercy of international corporations like starbucks. their recent e-mail ad for coffee harvested from papua new guinea shameslessly invites us all to savor the country's freshness. you consider how at least they admit to catering the greed in us all.
  3/14/2005 04:24:00 PM
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