A quintessential Addis Ababa experience begins at a place like Tomoca Coffee on Wavel Street, one of the city's original ...

Photograph by Rena Effendi “In Ethiopia, people treasure their coffee as part of life,” she adds. “Every morning, families conduct a coffee ceremony, an ancient ritual of roasting ...

Coffee’s story starts in the lush highlands of Ethiopia, the natural homeland of the delicate Coffea arabica plant. Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume ...

one must experience a coffee ceremony, a ritual still practiced in homes, restaurants and hotels across Ethiopia. Incense mixes with the aroma of beans roasting over hot coals, each batch ground ...

From its origins in medieval Ethiopia and Yemen ... it explores the uses people have had for coffee over the years, in religious rituals, as a stimulant to intellectual exchange, and even as ...