Rum may be the drink most closely associated with Caribbean culture and good times, but coffee is no slouch in these areas either. For most of us the two go hand-in-hand, as long nights of living it up with the bottle are almost always followed by late mornings living it down with a pot.
When you consider that 90% of the world’s coffee can be traced back to the first coffee tree successfully grown in the Caribbean on Martinique back in 1723, perhaps Caribbean coffee deserves a little more respect.
I’ll have a lot more to say about Martinique’s coffee tradition later.