These are the items that became family stories. The polenta pan an Argentine restaurant sold to Auntie Kristen after she finished the dish they cooked her in it. The D'Elidas hot sauce she brought back from Panama and won't shut up about. The Costa Rican coffee my mom orders by the bag because suitcase space is finite. Around here, how something entered the family matters as much as what it is.
Picked by Micki
The everyday one — Café Britt's Tres Ríos Valdivia, a single-origin Costa Rica arabica grown in the volcanic Tres Ríos highlands and ground for drip or French press. This is the bag my mom reorders on repeat: the mornin…
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Café Britt's decaffeinated Costa Rica Arábica — 100% arabica, ground for drip or French press. Micki keeps a bag in the kitchen for the afternoon pour that doesn't need to mess with sleep, and for guests who never quite…
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The Café Britt souvenir-section classic. Roasted espresso beans wrapped in milk chocolate — the variant Micki used to grab fistfuls of for the office snack drawer, the I-thought-of-you drop-by, the Tuesday-afternoon pic…
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The grown-up cousin of the milk version. Same Café Britt espresso bean, swapped into a dark chocolate shell — bitter notes from the coffee and the cocoa pulling in the same direction. Mic's pick when she's bringing back…
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The variant nobody guesses works until they try it. Roasted Café Britt espresso beans coated in white chocolate — sweeter and softer than the milk or dark, with the bean's bitterness cutting through what would otherwise…
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Picked by Kristen
Panama's #1 hot sauce. D'Elidas Picante Chombo is habanero-based, with a recipe that traces to early-1900s Antillean-Panamanian families — 120 years of family hot-sauce-making. Auntie Kristen used to bring it back from…
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Micki hauled this back from Lima — 25 pounds of carved leather and dark wood through customs. Hand-tooled panels on a wooden X-frame, Sun-of-Inti and traditional Tumi imagery embossed across the seat. The kind of object…
Picked by Mic
The smaller half of Micki's Tumi pair from Lima. Hand-tooled leather sling on a turned-wood tripod base — same Sun-of-Inti and Tumi imagery as the ottoman, scaled to a stool. The pair is more than the sum: one to sit on…
Picked by Mic
Hand-carved abstract teak from Lima — stylized mother and child in flowing curves on a rectangular pedestal. Micki found it on the same Lima trip as the Tumi pieces; it's a Peruvian modernist piece that holds its own ne…
Picked by Kristen
Auntie Kristen brought this back from Brazil. Hand-painted ceramic dancer in traditional samba costume — peacock-feathered dress in teal, gold, and red, the figure mid-curve as if the music's still playing. Brazilian fo…
Picked by Kristen
Auntie Kristen ate polenta in a restaurant in Argentina, asked about the pan it was cooked in, and the restaurant sold her the actual pan. A disco de arado — literally a plow disc, the traditional Argentine field pan fa…