Clearly, I am not alone in this regard. There seem to be plenty of people who are unable to get started in the morning without that first cup of coffee. It used to be that this was a cheap addiction, at around 50 cents per cup, with a free refill. Now that coffee has become chic, it was only a matter of time before certain kinds of coffee would stand out as politically correct coffee. And that time has come.
Shade grown coffee is politically correct coffee.
The buzz is just starting about this breed of coffee. Starbucks and the Audubon Society are already talking about this benevolent bean. As it turns out, shade grown coffee is a more environmentally friendly alternative to open field coffee. In fact, it used to be that much of the produced coffee was shade grown. Its evil cousin, sun grown coffee, is the newcomer.