LONDON (AP) — Growing up in Ethiopia, Yared Markos would often start his days the same way: with coffee. Family members, neighbors and passersby would be drawn in by the strong aroma of fresh beans ...

Jane and I recently returned from another trip to Ethiopia, where we spent time both with specialty coffee producers (for a subsequent post) and among the Kara people in the Omo River Valley. We have ...

Ethiopia is known as the birthplace of coffee — the coffee plant, coffea arabica, is native to the country's southwestern plateaus. Coffee is also central to Ethiopia's culture and its economy. Beans ...

Three siblings want to open a Ethiopian coffee shop in West Philadelphia to bring the unique experience of a coffee ceremony to the neighborhood known for its Eritrean and Ethopian community. MORE ...

LONDON (AP) — When Yared Markos moved to London a quarter century ago, he didn’t see any Ethiopian coffee shops. Now, there are more than a dozen all over a city where tea, coffee’s counterpart, has ...

“The social value of the coffee ceremony is one of our biggest traditions,” Kaffa Coffee owner Yared Markos says LONDON (AP) — Growing up in Ethiopia, Yared Markos would often start his days the same ...