To start, I was wondering if both of you could talk about what it was like growing up in Colombia around coffee. So I’m going to be asking questions and then you'll hear Luís translating those questions for us. We actually have a lot of the Amor Perfecto team here, and then we also have Luísa de Salazar and Astrid Medina-Luís Fernando Vélez will be translating for us. Here are Astrid Medina and Luísa de Salazar.Īshley : Thank you both so much for taking the time to talk with me. Regardless of the audio hiccups, I believe hearing people tell stories in their own words is deeply valuable, and I hope you enjoy hearing from the folks who make your daily coffee possible. The result is warm and rough-and-tumble episode-there are multiple voices and moments where people talk over one another-and in places the sound quality dips (for Astrid in particular, who was recording outside on her farm).
I ask all the questions in English and Astrid and Luísa respond in Spanish, while the Amor Perfecto team joins in and shares translation duties. Both growers were kind enough to share their triumphs and hardships with me on this podcast.Ī note on this episode: I highly recommend following along with the transcript, because there will be sudden shifts from English to Spanish. The other coffee came from northern Colombia, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range, and was grown by Luísa de Salazar (pictured on the right in orange touching a bed of dried coffee in parchment).
One coffee was from the Tolima region in southern Colombia, and was grown by Astrid Medina (pictured on the left in red helping pick coffee with two coffee pickers) who won Colombia’s Cup of Excellence-a national competition that awards the country’s best coffees-in 2015. They offered to send some coffees from a new project they were launching: a collaboration with the Frida Kahlo Corporation, which highlights women producers and innovators within the country’s specialty coffee scene.Īfter I tried the two coffees they sent, they asked if I’d be interested in talking to the women who had grown them. A few weeks ago, the folks at Amor Perfecto, a coffee roaster based in Bogotá, Colombia, reached out to me.
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