Travel Channel’s newest show scours the globe for the world’s best coffee
Skift Take
Destinations from Bolivia to Borneo are fascinating in their own right, but add a layer of the political-economic drama that surrounds the coffee industry and this becomes more than the average travel show.
Coffee importer Todd Carmichael will do just about anything to find the rarest coffee beans -- and that includes dodging third-world thugs armed with machine guns and machetes. In the new Travel Channel series"Dangerous Grounds," we follow him as he ventures into some of the world's deadliest places in search coffee that can sell for more than $30 a pound.
For the kick-off episode, he heads to Haiti, where he hopes to buy coffee beans directly from farmers...and he's undeterred when a coffee-world insider tells him that he'd better buy a bullet-proof vest before heading into the mountains.
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