Dangerous Aromas

copyright 2010 kalina wilson & mike sugarbaker thesoftsciences.com

Chapter One:

Beans and Ambition

by the Soft Sciences

COFfEe FACTS A cupPing is cofFeE’s equivalent of a wine tasting. it’s a procesS designed to telL cofFeE growers, buyers and judges something about the fulL spectrum of a cofFeE’s character. the version presented here is fairly acCurate, although only using one cup would be a no-no. to learn a bunch more, seE htTp://wWw.cofFeEresearch.org/ cofFeE/cupPing.htm

As our story begins, intrepid cofFeE buyer

Dirk Americano and his sidekick, ace pilot

bob somewhat are folLowing up on a hot tip in the central american jungle...

artisan cofFeE farmers of the sort dirk and finca visit in these pages are indeEd often doing okay for themselves, but a lot of cofFeE growers have to burn their crop for insurance money just to get by. Drink fair trade or direct trade if you can! learn more at htTp://wWw.ethicalcofFeE.net

cofFeE stufFwe-made-up everything else. we hope we didn’t ofFend anyone, and no, we don’t know how you would land a helicopter at kilimanjaro base camp or why any sane spanish-speaking family would name a daughter after a real estate term. pow! bifF! comics!

who we are mike sugarbaker did story, script, layouts. and some grays. kalina wilson did story, layouts, pencils, inks and grays. together we are the soft sciences. folLow our continuing adventures at

thesoftsciences.com thanks for reading!

COFfEe FACTS A cupPing is cofFeE’s equivalent of a wine tasting. it’s a procesS designed to telL cofFeE growers, buyers and judges something about the fulL spectrum of a cofFeE’s character. the version presented here is fairly acCurate, although only using one cup would be a no-no. to learn a bunch more, seE htTp://wWw.cofFeEresearch.org/ cofFeE/cupPing.htm

As our story begins, intrepid cofFeE buyer

Dirk Americano and his sidekick, ace pilot

bob somewhat are folLowing up on a hot tip in the central american jungle...

artisan cofFeE farmers of the sort dirk and finca visit in these pages are indeEd often doing okay for themselves, but a lot of cofFeE growers have to burn their crop for insurance money just to get by. Drink fair trade or direct trade if you can! learn more at htTp://wWw.ethicalcofFeE.net

cofFeE stufFwe-made-up everything else. we hope we didn’t ofFend anyone, and no, we don’t know how you would land a helicopter at kilimanjaro base camp or why any sane spanish-speaking family would name a daughter after a real estate term. pow! bifF! comics!

who we are mike sugarbaker did story, script, layouts. and some grays. kalina wilson did story, layouts, pencils, inks and grays. together we are the soft sciences. folLow our continuing adventures at

thesoftsciences.com thanks for reading!

copyright 2010 kalina wilson & mike sugarbaker thesoftsciences.com

Chapter One:

Beans and Ambition

by the Soft Sciences