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Story&Picture/ Keith Pech
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What grows together
A coffee & food pairing experiment
There is an idea that comes from French wine culture and single estate coffees and recently opened a boutique
that local dishes made from local produce pairs best with in downtown Bordeaux.
locally made wine. Thus, we get the food-pairing proverb, Since both Arthur and I are food, wine and coffee
“what grows together, goes together.” Since my recent move enthusiasts,we decided to try a food pairing experiment
from Boquete, Panama to Bordeaux, I have been working with single origin coffees. The idea was to pair coffees
with Arthur Audibert the founder of L’Alchimiste. with different fruits and products that can be found grow-
L’Alchimiste is considered to be the leading specialty coffee ing on coffee farms. So we began to design a small ex-
roaster in Bordeaux. They offer many great single origin periment that would take a few hours of an afternoon.
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