Puerto Rico's little secret: coffee / Some of the world's best beans never get off the island. By Abby Goodnough, New York Times July 31, 2005. 2005-07-31 04:00:00 PDT Adjuntas, ...

Puerto Rico produced some 10 million pounds of coffee last year. Much of it is grown in places like Elena Biamon's farm near Jayuya, a town in the island's mountainous interior. Sponsor Message ...

jayuya, puerto rico -- For 100 years, the Atienzas have grown coffee on an intensely green mountainside among the island’s highest peaks. Their 340-acre plantation is one of the last strongholds ...

The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.

ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico – Long before Starbucks and even Sanka, the coffee produced in this cool mountain region was internationally beloved – so much that Puerto Rico, barely the size of ...

Among the expenses that make coffee production costs so high are electricity and propane gas to roast coffee beans, Pons said. In Puerto Rico, a gallon of propane gas could cost up to $3 and power ...

Coffee was Puerto Rico’s chief export in the late 19th century, writes author Jorge Duany in “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know.” In 1896, about 77 percent of Puerto Rico’s exports ...

With its many locations across the city, 787 Coffee brings a taste of Puerto Rico to New Yorkers - a mission co-founder Brandon Ivan Peña refuses to give up on, no matter what obstacles stand in his ...

San Juan, Aug 5 (EFE). — The new prices for coffee beans set by the government are putting 20,000 jobs at risk, Puerto Rico Association of Farmers coffee section president Edwin Soto told EFE ...

Hector Muñoz owns a coffee farm in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, and hurricanes aren't the only natural disasters he's worried about. "If a drought comes it could be catastrophic," he said.