Visit the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and receive an in depth lesson on Coffee. What began as a wild shrub in upland Ethiopia approximately 2,000 years ago has today become the basis of a nearly universal human experience. To truly understand the path of coffee from ancient tree to modern international phenomenon, we must consider history, politics, culture, agriculture, plant science, chemistry, physics, economics, and marketing.

In this rich and challenging course, taught by illy