Someone told me it was hard to kick this habit. Frankly, I do not want to kick it. 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 being politically correct. Enter Shade Grown Coffee.
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 the 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 to the block.