A young woman wearing a red shirt and dark pants stands among dense coffee plants. She holds a woven basket at her waist in which she collects the coffee cherries.

Isis Maria Henriquez

Un Cafecito: Stories Brewed from El Salvador to Canada

There’s nothing quite as soul-warming as that first sip of hot coffee. Behind every cup is a much larger story - one that stretches across continents and generations. In this story, writer Isis Maria Henriquez shows how for her family, and so many other Latinos, coffee connected the snowy streets of Canada to the tropical forests of El Salvador.