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Suite 112 Tulsa, OK 74133 (918) 250.5030 •Servicio dental preventivo •Servicio dental para niños con necesidades especiales •Contamos con sedantes •Anestesia en nuestra oficina •Visitas de pacientes externos JUAN MIRET NOTICIAS.NACIONAL@COXINET.NET TULSA, Oklahoma – What we do with coffee is essentiality the same world- wide: Brew it and drink it; however, coffee goes beyond a single cup. Not only becau- se every bean is different, but because anyone can ruin coffee all along the way. It is a truly complex pro- cess, from picking the che- rry, to removing the pulp and parchment around the beans, to sorting, to roas- ting, to grinding. Indeed, many things can go wrong. But for Margarita Gaberino, a Salvadoran living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for more than 12 years, coffee is always right. And it has been right since 1870, when her great-great- grandfather started a lega- cy about 2,000 miles away from the Midwest. e family business was brutally affected in 2001, due to an extreme global co- ffee surplus. e prices were dropping to the point that it was too expensive to produ- ce one pound of coffee than a Salvadoran farmer could earn by selling it. Margarita decided to fight for her family heir- loom. It was not a choice to abandon a dream that took almost 150 years and sixth generations to achieve. So, despite the 2,000 miles that separate the slopes of the Santa Ana volcano in El Sal- vador to Tulsa, Margarita and her husband, John, put together what marketing specialists may call a crop- to-cup business model; that is a Plan B, cutting out the middleman, taking over the mill and roast and shipping process, and perhaps the most enthusiastic part: se- lling it to local businesses in Tulsa. Plan B worked. "We used my nickname from child- hood – Topéca. at was the name of our plan and our business," she said while brewing a double espresso at one of her shops located inside the historic Mayo Ho- tel, in downtown Tulsa. "My great-great-grandfather, Ra- fael Alvarez, left his home country in Colombia in search of wealth and hap- piness in El Salvador." en she paused and smelled for a few seconds her espresso. It looks like she traveled for a moment to the remote Salvadoran frontier. "With his family, he brought a ca- feto [coffee tree], or I should say an extraordinary cafeto. It was a 'Typica', a strain of the original Arabica coffee bean." "Some people thought it was a really crazy idea to bring coffee beans from El Salvador to Oklahoma," she said. "But immigrants love challenges, right?" Margarita convinced her brother, Emilio López Díaz, to handle the process in El Salvador. Meanwhile, her husband persuaded a local gourmet grocery store to let him have a kiosk selling coffee. "It was difficult, long hours, but it was the right thing to do," said Margarita while she grabs her cup to sip another drop of her favo- rite espresso. "I am glad we saved not only our farm, our family, but our roots." e business is thriving. It has about 40 full-time employees in El Salvador, and almost two dozen in Tulsa. Topéca sells more than 100,000 pounds of their total production through a massive roastery in downtown Tulsa, which is a 7,000-square-foot former industrial space, also ser- ving as the company head- quarters, warehouse and staff training facility. "Coffee is culture and tradition," said Margarita who was about to start plan- ning for her weekly cupping, a special tasting of the many coffees they have to offer to test quality and consistency. "Coffee stops time. It's like life itself. It takes time to savor it every bit or sip of it." Margarita left with a question … and added her answer right away: "Can you imagine a life with no coffee," she smiled and pro- ceeded: "Without our daily elixir, a lot of us would be irritable and lost – or at least dangerously sleepy." T-2 EL NACIONAL DE TULSA VIERNES 4 DE JULIO, 2014 • www.noticiasoklahoma.com TULSA