Haiti for Lifestyle Magazines
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.21.08 | 1:00 PM ET
Jason Wilson reconsiders a magazine story he wrote a decade ago about Haiti, in which he predicted Haitian-grown gourmet coffee offered the struggling country hope. “Ten years later, I now freely admit that this was typical lifestyle-magazine hyperbole,” he writes in The Smart Set. “My excuse? I wanted badly to write a positive story about Haiti, quite possibly the only positive story about Haiti that would appear in the American press that year, or in any year. Looking back on my visit now, I realize how misguided my plans turned out to be.”
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* Q&A with Jason Wilson: One Traveler, Three Dishes Named ‘Jason’
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Jake 04.21.08 | 2:54 PM ET
Coffee can be a major source of income for third world countries but only when it’s being bought from the farmers at a fair trade price or above. Unfortunately that is not the case near enough. I highly recommend checking out the documentary Black Gold if you’re interested in the coffee farmer crises world-wide.
http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/
Quality of Life 10.15.08 | 5:54 PM ET
True, ever had the thought that the cost of a cup of coffee in Starbucks is almost as equivalent to the daily wages of coffee farmers in the third world?