It also has a great place in the kitchen as an ingredient that can be used to heighten any number of recipes from Mocha chocolate muffins to tomato sauces and steak rubs. In the coming months, we will be sharing some of our favorite instant coffee recipes with you on this blog, but believe us when we say, your imagination is the limit!

Oaxaca caffeinates us with some of Mexico's best-quality coffee beans. Coffee is central to Oaxacan culture - the city hosts an annual International Coffee Festival. Pluma Hildago, about an hour up in the Sierra Madre Mountains along Highway 200 from Huatulco , is known as Mexico’s Coffee Town. It offers a perfect day trip.

It wasn’t for another 70 years, in 1851 during the American Civil War, that the next recorded version of instant coffee came to be. While trying to solve the issue of soldiers not having access to coffee on the battlefield, the Union army developed a product they called “The Essence of Coffee”.

The main difference between instant coffee and freeze dried coffees  is how they are processed. Our instant coffees are created through spray drying while our freeze dried coffee its creat by …get ready for this : freeze drying.