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A Whiff Inside An Ethiopian Coffee Collective

In the short doc There Is Only Coffee, Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of The Perennial Plate partnered with Intrepid Travel to check out a coffee-making collective in rural Ethiopia.

Unlike most coffee growing regions of the world, in Ethiopia the folks who grow the coffee, also drink the product. Long considered the birthplace of the beverage, Ethiopia produces some of the best. This little film is a love song to coffee, the grueling work that goes into producing it and the importance of small farms and cooperation in that process.

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