October 1st, 2009On this day in different years

Odaiba

Coffeemania

Can someone explain to me Californians' fascination with where their coffee beans and tea leaves come from? In New York this isn't given much attention from what I can tell, but it's a very big thing on the West coast. Here they take their coffee organically grown, fairly traded and (I think) 100% recyclable. I do wondwe, what sort of unfair trading goes into the coffee that we drink back East.