A Cafecito Story / El cuento del cafecito
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-931498-06-7 (ISBN)
Not a political or environmental polemic, A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic, modern fable about human beings at their best. The challenge of producing coffee is a remarkable test of our ability to live more sustainably, caring for the land, growers, and consumers in an enlightened and just way. Written with Julia Alvarez's deft touch, this is a story that stimulates while it comforts, waking the mind and warming the soul like the first cup of morning coffee. Indeed, this story is best read with a strong cup of organic, shade-grown, fresh-brewed coffee.
Julia Alvarez has bridged the Americas many times. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, she is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, author of world-renowned books in each of the genres, including How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Something to Declare. She is the recipient of a 2013 National Medal of Arts. She lives on a farmstead outside Middlebury, Vermont, with her husband Bill Eichner. Visit Julia's Web site https://www.juliaalvarez.com/ to find out more about her writing. Julia and Bill own an organic coffee farm called Alta Gracia in her native country of the Dominican Republic. Their specialty coffee is grown high in the mountains on what was once depleted pastureland. Not only do they grow coffee at Alta Gracia, but they also work to bring social, environmental, spiritual, and political change for the families who work on their farm. They use the traditional methods of shad-grown coffee farming in order to protect the environment, they pay their farmers a fair and living wage, and they have a school on their farm where children and adults learn to read and write. For more information about Alta Gracia, visit www.cafealtagracia.com. Belkis Ramrez, who created the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the most celebrated artrists in the Dominican Republic. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, who translated A Cafecito Story into Spanish, is originally from the Dominican Republic. She has taught Hispanic literature and culture at York College of The City University of New York since 1978, where she directs the Department on Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanitites.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2002 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Daisy Cocco De Filippis |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | White River Junction |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 85 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-931498-06-7 / 1931498067 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-931498-06-7 / 9781931498067 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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