More on Coffee...

Coffee is an interesting commodity, here in Puerto Rico as elsewhere. There is great competition among coffee farmers - and rightly so as each farmers product is a source of not only his or her livelihood, but also a source of pride for all of Puerto Rico.

Some of the everyday coffees we sell are not 100% Puerto Rican. Coffee is imported from the Dominican Republic and Guatemala (a very big coffee producer) to keep the cost of local coffees low and ensure a sufficient supply. These coffees are good - quite good - when compared to others of the same price.

And price!!! A cup of coffee in Puerto Rico usually costs about 50 cents (except, of course, in Starbucks).

In Puerto Rico coffee is brewed to a taste a little stronger than American coffee but not as strong as an Italian expresso.

We order our coffee: cortado (literally "cut" with little milk), al americano (basically watered down and in a large quantity), expresso (here we see it spelled both in Spanish and in Italian!), con leche (with more milk than cortado).