FRUIT ANGEL — Uganda Washed Pineapple Co-ferment — Sironko Station Grind:Whole Bean Roots are ancestry

Roots are ancestry

and the conviction that gathering Black folks around cups was a kind of organizing

in the language of the diaspora's other half

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FRUIT ANGEL — Uganda Washed Pineapple Co-ferment — Sironko Station Grind:Whole Bean Roots are ancestryThe Baganda people of Uganda knew coffee as a blessing long before it was a commodity. Ripe cherries wrapped in banana leaves. Steamed. Given to guests arriving at home. Not a beverage. A welcome. The specialty industry spent decades overlooking Uganda. Mountain Harvest spent years proving them wrong from the inside, with Ugandan hands. Their Innovation Series puts young Ugandan professionals in charge of processing research. Not based on Latin