Climate change pushing Peruvian coffee to cooler heights
One of the joys of a Peru vacation is discovering the organic shade-grown coffee grown between 4000 and 6000 feet above sea level in the steep Andean valleys in the region around Cusco.
Peruvian coffee
Peru growers harness mammal’s digestive tract to strip bitter-taste from very costly coffee beans
Reuters reports that two Peruvian coffee producers — Cecovasa and Chanchamayo Highland Coffee Co. — are now making one of the most expensive coffees in the world by retrieving arabica beans from the dung of a long-nosed jungle mammal called the coati, a tropical cousin of the raccoon.