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Milli, the perfect place to try drip coffee

By Eloísa Carmona - 2021-04-16T11:10:41Z
At Milli, you will not only find a wide variety of marzipans with the most incredible flavors you can imagine and have the chance to taste coffee extracted using the Chemex drip method, but you will also have the opportunity to learn more about fair trade with its suppliers and vendors.Milli is a project created to share a small but active space in the Roma neighborhood, where producers, vendors, and consumers have the chance to converse and learn more about products such as coffee, artisanal bread, desserts, food, and their ingredients. In this little corner of Roma, your coffee becomes a conversation with a honey producer who cultivates cacti in San Luis Potosí, or an artisanal baker from Ojo de Agua who makes balanced bread specifically for vegan diets. When it comes to coffee, there's no shortage; this season of the year, they have selected coffee from Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Chiapas, and if you have never tried drip coffee, this is the perfect place to do so.The Oaxacan coffee they offer is from the Sierra Mixe, with a washing process that makes it very different from others, but the most interesting part is the story behind it, as this coffee is distributed by the producer's son, who studies to be a trumpeter in CDMX, thus funding his studies.As for the marzipans, Milli has perhaps the largest variety in the city, all made with ingredients from Pluma de Hidalgo, also in Oaxaca, with flavors you can't imagine, like cricket marzipans, amaranth, filled with hazelnut cream, and a delicious 100% cocoa (bitter) marzipan that pairs perfectly with coffee.And if you feel like trying artisanal products, you can also find embroidered clothing from various communities of indigenous peoples and natural cosmetics made by an entrepreneur who is against animal cruelty and will soon be organizing workshops on how to make your own ointments.