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Coffe Culture

...from Coffe Culture Local Experience, Global Connections by Catherine M. Tucker . She explores coffe as: a major commodity thet shapes lives of millons of peoples; a product with a checkered and dramatic history; a beverage with mutliple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food addiction, flavoring and confection); an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; an agricultur crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; a health risk and a health food; and a focus alternative trade efforts (fair trade and environment certification programs)  Coffe, Key of Communication My Coffe weekly Gathering  Reference: Catherine M. Tucker, Coffe Culture (Local Experience, Global Connections), 2011, Routledge