THE COFFEE ATLAS / 18 STOPS
A whole world in a cup.
What to call it. How it’s brewed. The stories behind it. Follow your curiosity from the origins in our collection to the cafés that shaped coffee culture.
A coffee passport, without the clichés. Explore the places behind our Global Harvest coffees and the brewing cultures that make a cup feel like a destination. Local words are starting points, not complete language guides. Traditions vary by community and household; our at-home tasting suggestions are identified separately. These are researched field notes, not claims of personal travel.
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Shop our 14 coffee destinations ↗Origin coffees and café cultures are different journeys. Each origin story links to its exact coffee; café-culture guides lead to brewing and recipes.
ORIGIN & CULTURE
Bali, Indonesia
Kopi means coffee in Indonesian; kopi tubruk names a familiar unfiltered preparation.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Sumatra, Indonesia
Kopi is coffee; a warung kopi is a coffee stall or small coffee shop.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Ethiopia
Buna is the Amharic word for coffee; jebena names the clay brewing pot.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Kenya
Kahawa is Swahili for coffee; language and ordering habits vary by place.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Tanzania
Kahawa is the Swahili term for coffee.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Papua New Guinea
Coffee is widely used in English; this highly multilingual country has no single local word that represents every community.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Costa Rica
Café chorreado is coffee brewed through a cloth filter held by a chorreador.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Guatemala
Café is coffee in Spanish; a café negro is black coffee. Guatemala is multilingual, so Spanish is not the whole linguistic story.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Peru
Café means coffee in Spanish. Café pasado is a regional term for brewed, filtered coffee.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Nicaragua
Café is coffee in Spanish; ask about the house preparation rather than assuming a special national recipe.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Mexico
Café de olla names a pot-brewed coffee often sweetened with piloncillo and scented with cinnamon.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Honduras
Café is the Spanish word; cafecito is an affectionate diminutive heard in many Spanish-speaking places.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Brazil
Cafezinho means a little coffee; café coado refers to filtered coffee.
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ORIGIN & CULTURE
Colombia
Tinto means black coffee in Colombia; tintico is an affectionate diminutive. It is not red wine in this context.
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CAFÉ CULTURE
Italy
Un caffè commonly means an espresso. A macchiato is espresso marked with a little milk.
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CAFÉ CULTURE
Türkiye
Türk kahvesi means Turkish coffee; a cezve is the small brewing pot.
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Vietnam
Cà phê is coffee; cà phê sữa đá is iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk.
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Japan
Kōhī means coffee; a kissaten is a traditional-style café, with the word literally rooted in tea drinking.
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