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Follow the links below to articles written by Tom & Maria (and a few great pieces by others in the coffee trade); some facts, some opinions, some mine, some not.

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I did a lot of cupping in Guatemala City looking for special lots, and then some quick trips to farms in the nearby states. Check out my Guatemala Travelogue.
A whirlwind tour of Costa Rica Micro Mills in mid February!
Espresso Pages- Tom worked on these pages a lot a long time ago - but there was never a link to them that could be easily found. The information is still good- though I am sure he would consider the pages to be still a work in progress (4 years later) .... Maria
January 2008: India ... another example of gross camera addiction. I took 1350 images, and narrowed it down to 302 for my India Travelogue. There's also a brief essay.
It took a week to sort through them all, but here is my little travelogue for Yemen, just 350 photos or so. You can view it here, or on our new beta site Image Gallery. It's one of the most intriguing coffee origins, and one of the best trips I have taken.
Here's a travelogue of my trip to Ethiopia to cup at many exporters in Addis Ababa, and get ready for the new crop coffees.
We have posted a .PDF version of the Imbibe Magazine article that featured 3 Sweet Maria's home roasting customers.
A collection of single-bean macro images representing different varietals and processes. It's not exhaustive at all, but simply what I had nearby. -Tom
Here's my totally uninformative picture book of the 2007 Roasters Guild Retreat and a matching, very curmudgeonly comments about the 2007 SCAA Conference in Long Beach
An interesting article about coffee chemistry and freshness.
A new version of the Sweet Maria's Cupping Log for incoming samples, with links to the older versions.
Have you ever noticed how different origin sections of the list expand and contract throughout the year? Of course there is a reason for this - it means that coffee from this region is in season - that the best of the arrivals from the past couple of months have been from this region. So one time of year the South American section will be chock full of coffees- and sometimes not. Generally when we are on the verge of a new season - we will have very few coffees from a region as we wait on the new crop arrivals. A rough production chart that shows how coffee production from around the world is available here - Coffee Production Timetable.
A short but sweet cupping trip to the Dota, Tarrazu and Naranjo regions of Costa Rica.
A page with some interesting microscopic images of the coffee seed, and the difference between a healthy bean and a defective bean.
Since we are finally offering Daterra Yellow Bourbon, I have made a page to describe Daterra Farms, including a snippet of my travelogue and photos of their amazing coffee processing system.
We have some new pictures pertaining to our Rwanda coffees. Our lot of Womens Coop Duhingekawa Rushashi demands a separate Duhingekawa page with additional photos and information about this group. And our Rwanda Butare Bourbon is the result of improvements at the Bufcafe cooperative mill. Washing stations (wet mills) are communal, and often used by more than one farm or cooperative. Here is info about the wet mill improvement project.
A real short trip to Motozintla, Mexico, "land of the squirrels," way south in Chiapas state at the border with Guatemala.
Peru, what an amazing place, what a screwy place in terms of coffee. If I seem too harsh, 395 photos in a travelog (and a video to boot) should show the enthusiasm I also have for Peru ... there are 7 pages of thumbnail images, and I hope you find some of it, if not most of it, interesing: Peru Coffee Tour 2006
Travelog for Guatemala Cup of Excellence and other Guatemala travels 2006
Travelog for El Salvador Cup of Excellence 2006
A little cupping test performed on Ethiopia Yirgacheffe to evaluate any difference in the cup character based on screen size.
Another attempt to explain the differences in roasted coffee color, surface texture, and corresponding ground coffee color.
I posted new travelogs for my recent trips, with all my coffee competition cupping scores and the final results. First off was the 2006 Best of Panama competition, then off to to Honduras Cup of Excellence 2006 in San Pedro Sula, and finally the 2006 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence competition in Granada, Nicaragua (a beautiful colonial town). I hope you can tolerate some tongue-in-cheek commentary, with a smattering of useful observations. Lots of pictures, and some of them actually have something to do with coffee! -Tom
Here's some pictures of our empty old place in Emeryville and our new place in hot, upcoming, hi-energy West Oakland!
Maria has written a FAQ called How to Choose a Home Roaster - a good summary of the options.
I have started, barely, to actually log all the incoming samples that I cup whether we buy them or not. Tom's Cupping Log. This might, over time, give people an idea of the process, and all the coffees we go through to find the really nice lots. But this is just a beginning - I think this page will be impossibly huge after a while. Also, we have a single page listing of all the Moisture Content Readings of our currrent stock
I updated the Coffee Production Yearly Timetable to reflect peak crop pickings and shippings, but it is still a very rough guide to the crop cycle.
I created a new version of the Roasted Coffee Pictorial Guide with much improved pictures. Click on the small images to see the larger versions, and I have also added a multi-bean photo for each roast stage.
Don't ask why, but we keep a page just for obsolete products ... RIP
I have created a sort of weblog for our main page to archive happenings there.
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	General Home Roasting FAQs and Tip Sheets		Sweet Maria's Home Roaster Tip Sheets- for both currently available machines and discontinued models
	Roasting Basics Information Sheet Pictorial Guide to The Roast Process My Comparison Chart of Home Roasters Maria has written a FAQ called How to Choose a Home Roaster - a good summary of the options. Blending Basics (with Espresso Blend section) Stovetop Corn Popper Roasting (Whirley-Pop) Stovetop Pan or Wok Roasting Oven Roasting Air Popper Roasting (right type of Popper) Cooling the Roast Roasted Coffee Storage		Behmor 1600 roaster Gene Cafe Roaster Hearthware iRoast 2 Tip Sheet Zach & Dani's Tip Sheet HotTop Roasting Tip Sheet FreshRoast Tip Sheet Hearthware iRoast Tip Sheet Caffe Rosto Tip Sheet Swissmar Alpenrost Tip Sheet Roasting Less Than 8 Ounces in the Alpenrost Alpenrost Cleaning Instructions Alpenrost Simple Diagnostic Hearthware Precision Tip Sheet Hearthware Precision Troubleshooting FAQ Hearthware Gourmet Tip Sheet
	Home Roasting Methods and Modifications		Sweet Maria's Brewing FAQs and Tip Sheets
	Building your own roaster: To help those making their own BBQ Roasters, here are some samples of perforated metals. Here are pictures of the Jabez Burns Sample Roaster, perhaps of interest to those building their own drum roaster from a gas barbeque. Also see my poge of all various roasters I have encountered... Here is an unattributed article on re-wiring the Freshroast so fan and heater can be controlled separately (by a Variac or such). I have a Hearthware I-Roast Review with pictures. Air Popper Modifications -Adding a Thermometer Making a Thermometer Clip for our Marshall and Cooper Thermometers Air Popper Modifications -Using a Timer Air Popper Modifications -Experimental Chimneys Air Popper Modifications -Installing a Switch		Our Coffee Review Reference Page Grinding and Brewing Basics Information Sheet Vacuum Brewing in the Cona Vacuum Brewing in the Bodum Santos Vacuum Brewing in the Yama New: Stovetop Vacuum Brew Pictorial (Yama, Bodum Santos) Filter-Drip Brewing with the Chemex Brewing in the Technivorm French Press Brewing Brewing Coffee in an Ibrik Moka Pot Brewing (Stovetop Espresso) Zassenhaus Care and Use Instructions

	Other Roasters, Obsolete Roasters		Roasting and Green Coffee Evaluation Topics: Articles by Sweet Maria's
	The Homemade Home Roasters Page. This is a listing of various home built coffee roasters, hopefully to inspire crafty roasting folks to also build their own! The Hearthware Troubleshooting FAQ is added to the Hearthware Tip Sheet Tips and Tricks for the ol' Melitta Aromaroast Coffee Roaster Some pictures of our new Diedrich 12 K Roaster .. moving it, installing it, and running over Judy's hedgehog. Our comments on the Coffee Kinetics 1 Lb. Roaster Here's a review of the Pro 1500 Roaster from Brightway (makers of the Caffe Rosto). It's a 3 Lb shop roaster, expensive but with some very nice features! I maintain a sort of nifty Coffee Roaster Image Gallery page- just a jumble of all the roasters I have used, and ones I have come across on trips. Antique Home Roasters: Home roasting has a long history in the United States, when farmers and rural folk had to do most everything for themselves. If you are interested, here are some of the old home coffee roasters we have...		I created a new version of the Roasted Coffee Pictorial Guide with much improved pictures. Click on the small images to see the larger versions, and I have also added a multi-bean photo for each roast stage. We also have an older Degree of Roast pictorial page The Cupping Log excel file became corrupted and I have finally started a second version: Tom's Cupping Log I have started, barely, to actually log all the incoming samples that I cup whether we buy them or not. Tom's Cupping Log. This might, over time, give people an idea of the process, and all the coffees we go through to find the really nice lots. But this is just a beginning - I think this page will be impossibly huge after a while. Also, we have a single page listing of all the Moisture Content Readings of our currrent stock I updated the Coffee Production Yearly Timetable to reflect peak crop pickings and shippings, but it is still a very rough guide to the crop cycle. Taste Terminology and Roast Names How We Select Coffees, and "Cupping" Here's the Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel! We have a Roast Temperature Curve Page (under construction!) Here's Looking at Green Beans Green Coffee Storage for home roasters Green Coffee Freshness Issues An quick look at the fun stuff we find in coffee, sometimes. Our Coffee Cupping Review Archives: A - F \| G - K \| L - P \| R - S \| T - Z Coffee Packaging and Freshness A little cupping test performed on Ethiopia Yirgacheffe to evaluate any difference in the cup character based on screen size. Another attempt to explain the differences in roasted coffee color, surface texture, and corresponding ground coffee color.
	Espresso Equipment and Other Coffee Equipment		Roasting and Green Coffee Evaluation Topics: Great Articles from Other Sources
	Here's some photos of us moving and installing our Probat L12 (12 kilo) Roaster! Use and care of the Coffee Cuppers Spittoon! Here's a look at the professional sample roasters we brought in from Brazil. I have been working on a whole new series of called The Espresso Pages. Unfortunately, the holidays came along and I have no time to expand and complete them. I have to help pack orders! But here is what I have so far, unfinished, perhaps a few mistakes and typos... Just to prove I am down with the whole barista competition thing, we have started offering limited quantities of ou own special 12 oz. jars of Barista Jam. Okay, that's not true, but our new line of products we call Baristawarez2000 is all too real. Strictly for the serious shot-puller. A page with my hand-pull Pavoni espresso machine observations, and full scans of the diagram charts and parts lists heretofore not available on the net Vacuum Brewing in the Hario Brewer (we no longer sell any Hario but this is FYI) How to adjust the Solis 177 Mulino grind range. The Pasquini Livia 90 I made a page for our new/old La San Marco Hand-Pull Espresso Behemoths.		Coffee Production Yearly Timetable A fascinating article "Tourist in a Taste Lab" from Discover magazine on the varying sensitivity to taste from one person to the next... Roasting Article by Carl Staub from SCAA Roast Kit Literature I have uploaded some interesting articles from past SCAA presentations I attended, or nearly attended... Sensory Evaluation of Coffee, one on Comparisons of Wine & Coffee, and an article on Evaluation of Green Coffee Samples. Each has some valuable tidbits. Green Coffee Storage From Crop to Cup This is an article about green coffee storgage on a large scale. Listed below is an article about green coffee storage for home roasters. Preface to Coffee Quality by Michael Sivetz Robusta Characteristics from Nestle Here is the San Francisco Chronicle Home Roasting article that resulted in way too many drop-in customers at our warehouse...

	Coffee Travels: Our Coffee Trade, Farm & Cupping Trips I don't document every trip, and yet this category has grown rather large... hence 2 columns		Coffee Travels: Our Coffee Trade, Farm & Cupping Trips (Continued)
	I posted new travelogs for my recent trips, with all my coffee competition cupping scores and the final results. First off was the 2006 Best of Panama competition, then off to to Honduras Cup of Excellence 2006 in San Pedro Sula, and finally the 2006 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence competition in Granada, Nicaragua (a beautiful colonial town). I hope you can tolerate some tongue-in-cheek commentary, with a smattering of useful observations. Lots of pictures, and some of them actually have something to do with coffee! -Tom Back from the Brasil Cafe do Cerrado 2005 event , but off to Bolivia Cup of Excellence (hurricane permitting)[hurricane was not permitting - here are the Bolivia 2005 winners though]. I had time to parse 800 photos and ended up with about 150 that I just had to share. Why do I do this? I don't know. And be warned that a lot of it is not about coffee, strictly speaking. -Tom January harvest trip to Nicaragua and El Salvador and a whole mess o' pictures, as usual. Check out the Nicaragua - El Salvador Travelogue I have finished the travelog for my Colombia Trip, which includes the 2005 Cup of Excellence competition. It's a different format than before, more and I put a lot of work into it. I hope you get something out of it... And there is a special feature: What does a coffee cupping room sound like? Well, I made a little stereo recording while walking around the room at the 2005 Colombia CoE. I am back from Kona and the 2004 Kona Cupping Competition and made a travelogue of the event ... which feels a bit incomplete. Even with a limited time there, it makes a big impression and there is no way to convey it in a few photos. -Tom		I have finished my rather extensive travelogue from Brazil 2004 Cerrado Competition and Coffee Tour. Maria thinks I am nuts. I spent 3 days trimming down my 600 pictures to a mere 179, and writing the decriptions for each. There is just so much I learn on each new trip, so these web pages are as much for myself as you everyone else. I hope you get some I finally finished a complete journal and slide show for my trip as a judge at the 2004 El Salvador Cup of Excellence Competition! I also did a "slide show" of pictures from the Nicaragua Cup of Excellence coffee competition, 2004 . It took me a long time to get the pages together and so I am sorry it lacks detail. But there are some nice images... I created a sort of quick and temporary page of images from last week's Costa Rica trip. More to come... There's a new pictorial of my 2003 trip to the Bolivia Coffee Competition in 2 sections Page 1 and Page 2, and a short Bolivia Movie too! I have made a "slide show" of my trip to the 2003 Best of Panama cupping competition. My Honduras Cupping Trip 2003: Part One is the competition and tour of the Northern coffee lands. Part Two is the tour of the Southern coffee lands near the capital of Tegucigalpa. I have a lot of information and pictures from a tour of Nicaragua this year, including judging in the Cup of Excellence competition. The 2003 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence Trip to Matagalpa & Nueva Segovia The remarkable coffee farm Selva Negra Co-op coffee from Prodecoop and La Union Tom's 2001 SCAA Convention Report ...bitter, very bitter. I had a couple comments and pictures from the 2003 SCAA Conference in Boston. A new page from my trip to the Panama Cupping Competition in early April 2002 is done! I have finally completed a lengthy pictorial page on my Trip to the Guatemala Highlands, April 2001
	Health Concerns, Caffeine, Decaffeinating The Ecology of Coffee		Coffee Producing Origins: Interesting Articles from Other Sources
	Health and Ecological Concerns I get frustrated reading magazine articles that oversimplify the issues with coffee production - they are just big sales pitches to niche markets in my mind. And I am not anti-organic! But are you doing "the right thing" when you buy cheap Peru Organic at Trader Joe's. Actually, no. I decided to write a respone to one I call "Organic Alarmists" Here's some information about Utz Kapeh, a new sorta "Fair Trade Lite" showing up in the US market for the first time on our Brazil Impanema Dulce. The Caffeine FAQ Ethyl Acetate Decaf Process by Cafiver Inc The CO-2 Decaf Method Genetic Decaf Coffee Trees! Please also see our page about how we donate to relief organizations		An excellent article surveying the state of African coffee There have been two excellent coffee articles in the New York Times recently. One is a travel article to the Panama coffee-growing region of Boquete. The other is an R.W. Apple article about Kona coffee. Technical Notes for Yemen Coffees from YSC, Ltd Bad Coffee Weather in Brazil I did not attend the 2004 Honduras Cup of Excellence as a judge, but I did evaluate the coffees at the group cupping. Here's a run down.
	The Odds and Ends!		Coffee Cutivation and Technical Aspects.
	Oddball coffee muzics ... It's summer and that means PNWG III! And also the San Francisco Bay Area Home Roaster get-together, featuring Jeffrey Paulins computer controlled Hot Top.The SCAA show in Seattle went down and I went up, and felt downbeat so did this write-up which comes down on things but it's up to you to decide what's going down when upscale coffee sellers are really sliding downslope ... blah blah blah. -Tom Mike McKoffee has prepared a Costa Rica La Minita (CRLM) cupping from the last 4 crops and I was one of the cuppers in the experiment. Here's my results. The Home Roast List's Pacific Northwest Gathering #2 was in Oakland (Oakland Oregon that is. Here are some fairly lame pictures I took... Read about Tom's ongoing attempts to fashion a custom chaff collector for the Hearthware iRoast Roasting Cocoa Beans at Home (or ...not) ...and ... Regis Hanna wrote a great description of processing raw cacao into hot chocolate. Recipe that used our Green Coffee Home Roasting; Why Bother? We have a periodic cupping club called RoastBusters. Here's the results of the last one... A review from the NYT for the book Uncommon Grounds Coffee, History, Literature: Coffee has inspired some great historical comment, essays, protests, opera, etc. Here are some of my favorite historical quotations on the subject of coffee Sweet Maria's coffees were reviewed by Ken Davids in Sept. 99 CoffeeReview Coffee is still transported as it was 200 years ago, in 60 to 70 Kg Burlap Coffee Bags. Here's a sampling of ours... Here's what a real East Bay coffee warehouse looks like. The new sweet maria's skateboard a la natas kaupas for freestyle flip tricks is but a hoax. Well, yes and no. I have one, but you can't ride it... unless you come to west oakland, and ask nicely. And sign this waiver ...		I tried to put together a pictorial about how I grow coffee plants at home. This is dated now, and I have over 60 plants with at least 25 unique cultivars represented, including robusta types, liberica, excelsa and other non-arabica coffees. A friend sent me a couple interesting photos from India, which I turned into a page about Exotic Coffee Cultivars My review of El Salvador 2004 Cup of Excellence includes a visit to the ProCafe Experimental Coffee Farm with lots of Cultivar Pictures! Coffee vs. Wine, the debate goes on. This was the article I prepared for the March Tiny Joy, before editing it How about Home Processing Coffee? Well, you need coffee cherry to do that. I brought back some extra from Costa Rica so I gave home wet-processing a try I had made a page that concerns Buying Bags of Coffee, essentially some insights about dealing with brokers and why I feel like home roasters and startup roasters should be cautioned away from doing so. Might sound self-serving, but there's other reasons for this position... Nice pictures too!
	The Coffee Trade: Sweet Maria's Other Pictorials
	An updated look at Organic and Fair Trade coffee in Ethiopia, as of 2004 Coffee from the Island of Saint Helena is something we get when it is available and when it is good. But the crop is very limited, and there have been problems with reliability lately. Whether we will have it again is a unsure... Our coffee shipment on the way from the Isle of St. Helena. Here's some wonderful pictures! It's the middle of the busy season but it's also time for the Brazil Coffee Auction! I posted a list of the winning coffees and a few comments and our lot, the Boa Vista (due in March) Here's some comments and pictures from a recent cupping of India Coffees with Ken Davids, and a tour of Mr. Espresso's wood-fired roasters. I had a nice visit over at Intelligentsia in Chicago, a roasting company I hold in high regard... We have a special page dedicated to our winning lot of 2002 Brazil Cup of Excellence Auction Lot, Fazenda Boa Vista		Our Coffee Cupping Reviews have tons of information as do the archive of reviews... Central America: Costa Rica \| Guatemala \| Honduras \| Mexico \| Nicaragua \| Panama \| El Salvador South America: Bolivia \| Brazil \| Colombia \| Peru Africa/Arabia: Burundi \| Congo \| Ethiopia \| Kenya \| Tanzania \| Uganda \| Zambia \| Zimbabwe \| Yemen Indonesia/Asia: Bali \| India \| Java \| Papua New Guinea \| Sumatra \| Sulawesi \| Timor Islands/Blends/Others: Hawaii \| Puerto Rico \| Jamaica \| Dominican \| Chicory \| Sweet Maria's Blends Decafs: Swiss Water Process, Natural Decafs, MC Decafs, C0-2 Decafs Robustas: India \| Uganda Archives: A - F \| G - K \| L - P \| R - S \| T - Z \| Pre-2000

Tiny Joy, our newsletter, in plain text web format (and later in .pdf)

(This is not fancy, just the articles really, so everyone can have access to them. It is not a complete list, our '97 and most of '98 are missing, as are a few from '00. The layouts get a bit messed up when they are converted from print to web, but it is all there...)

Tiny Joy Sept-Oct '98
Tiny Joy Jan-Feb '99
Tiny Joy March-April '99
Tiny Joy April-May '99
Tiny Joy June-July '99
Tiny Joy Sept-October '99
Tiny Joy Nov.-Dec '99
Tiny Joy Jan-Feb '00
Tiny Joy March-April'00:
Tiny Joy April-May '00: Degree of Roast -First Crack and Second Crack
Tiny Joy June '00 : Perspective on Home Roasting
Tiny Joy July '00 : Sumatra 5: Jamaica 0 ...why we stock what we stock...
Tiny Joy Aug '00, Excerpts : We lots some of this file (back when I used to lay it out in Quark Express), Panama Cuppings: La Berlina
Tiny Joy October '00 Excerpts : Traditional Chemical Decaf, Aged Sumatra
Tiny Joy Nov-December '00: New crop coffees, a pissy article defending cupping
Tiny Joy Jan-Feb '01: The other East African coffees (Zimbabwe, etc.), Politics, Fair Trade and the C Market
Tiny Joy March '01: A very interesting article on Home Roasting and Freshness
Tiny Joy April-May '01: Pops, Cracks and Snaps: interpreting the sound of the roast.
Tiny Joy June '01: First Panama auctions; A Matter of Taste
Tiny Joy July-Aug '01: Fair Trade; foreign matter in coffee
Tiny Joy Sept-Oct '01: Why to Blend, Why Not to Blend
Tiny Joy Nov-Dec '01: The Coffee Purist Vs. The Roast Stylist
Tiny Joy Jan-Feb '02: Big Differences vs. Dumb Details: what's important to get cup quality
Tiny Joy Mar-April '02: Minding the crop cycle, Jamiaca update, Underacheiving at the SCAA show
Tiny Joy May-June '02: Costa Rica comes through, nice Panamas, SCAA show comment
Tiny Joy July-Aug '02: Bumper crop of Centrals, remarkable Robusta, Announcing our move to Ca.
Tiny Joy Sept-Oct '02: Pyrolysis: the Fancy Name for Roasting, Where's my damn cupping spoons?
Tiny Joy Nov-Dec '02: New Organic Standards, The farther you go the less you know, etc
Tiny Joy Jan-Feb '03: Brazil-O-Rama: excellent choices in Brazilian Coffee
Tiny Joy March-April '03: Sumatra's are in! Benefits of our new location so near the port
Issues below this are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader or the equivalent to view them
Tiny Joy May-June '03: Focus on Costa Rica, can a coffee be too perfect?
Tiny Joy August-September '03: Drum roasting versus air roasting, apples and oranges...
Tiny Joy October - November '03: Acidity is Your Friend!
Tiny Joy January - February '04: Freshness and Green Coffee! An important issue...
Tiny Joy March - April '04: Central American Update, Wine vs. Coffee
Tiny Joy May - June '04: Culling All Coffee! The "preparation" of green coffee
Tiny Joy July-August '04: Can Aussies Grow Coffees? Australia Coffee. Cup of Excellence Update
Tiny Joy Sept-Oct '04: Central American Roundup. Hurricane Ivan hits Jamaica.
Tiny Joy Nov-Dec '04: The Lean Times (the window of time before new crop Centrals Arrive); What is a Technivorm?
January-March 05 - uh-oh, can't find it!
Tiny Joy April-May '05: New Crop Centrals update; Whose Taste Matters? Some thoughts on tasting, and our role...
Tiny Joy June-July- August '05: Kenya, Kenya, Kenya
Tiny Joy Sept-Oct-Nov '05: Hot, Lukewarm, Cool: The Taste Shift (or, Contempt for French Roast)
Tiny Joy January-February '06: Sweet Maria's is now "Peaberry Depot"
Tiny Joy March-April-May '06: Roaster Fundamentals
Tiny Joy July-August '06: Paying Out the Nose for Quality Coffee!?!
Tiny Joy Oct-Nov-Dec '06: Coffee Philosophy
Tiny Joy January Feb Mar '07: More meandering thoughts on taste and quality.
Tiny Joy April May June'07: Coffee is a Crop, Not a Can of Pop
Tiny Joy September October '07: Ethiopia DP Problems, Stash Reduction and Coffee Forecasting.
Tiny Joy November December '07: Liberica..What is It?, Smiling Greens
Tiny Joy January February '08: Quakers and Coffee

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