How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2)

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As civil war erupted in Yemen, Mokhtar Alkhanshali found himself imprisoned, with $5,000 stuffed in his underwear and his coffee samples confiscated. To get those samples to the biggest specialty coffee expo in North America, he’d have to survive more than one near-death experience. Would his coffee be worth the risk?

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0:00.0	I would ask seasoned coffee like buyers and roasters, where can I get Yemen coffee?
0:11.8	And they would say things like it's just really hard to get.
0:14.4	We don't know where it comes from because we can't go to that country.
0:17.4	It's very expensive and it has a lot of defects, but the best cup of coffee that I had it
0:23.0	was like a Yemen coffee 10 years ago or 20 years ago.
0:27.2	And I looked at Wallam.
0:28.3	And he had this kind of Mona Lisa smile, like a very subtle smile.
0:32.4	Was that a smile?
0:33.4	I don't know where he is.
0:34.4	It's a bad, I don't know.
0:35.4	It was so different.
0:36.4	He said, this is one of the best coffee I ever tasted.
0:38.4	I could feel like the earth shaking.
0:40.6	And I went outside and I saw what looked like laser beams being shot in the sky.
0:45.4	And those were anti aircraft machine guns being shot out fighter jets.
0:59.0	This is this fork full.
1:00.2	It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.
1:01.7	I'm Dan Pashman.
1:03.0	Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.
1:06.8	This is the second half of our two part story about Mokhtar Al-Khanshali.
1:10.1	If you haven't listened to part one from last week, please start there.
1:14.6	When we left off, Yemen was erupting in a full blown war.
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