October is Fair Trade Month. To make sure the money you pay for coffee, tea, and chocolate actually gets back to the people who produced it, try buying Fair Trade products from one of these sources.

The national beverage of Argentina (and a few other South American countries) is vaguely reminiscent of tea, but you can't just drink it; you have to have the right equipment and understand the rituals.

High-end coffee machines do everything with the single press of a button: grind the beans, tamp them down, custom-brew coffee to your specifications, and eject the used grounds into a holding bin. Great coffee, effortlessly, for a price.