Where to find coffee beans roasted on Long Island
Photo credit: Newsday/Rebecca Cooney | Lydia Testani makes a fresh cup of coffee using the Hario dripper method at Georgio's Coffee Roasters in Farmingdale where the coffee is hand-selected, and comes from all over the world. (Oct. 28, 2011)
It wasn't too long ago that most coffee drinkers bought their brew of choice at the supermarket, and freshness referred to how long ago the can was opened. But Long Islanders have gotten more sophisticated about coffee -- call it the Starbucks effect -- and they want to know where their beans were grown, who roasted them and when.
The result: a surge of local coffee roasters.
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