Mutually Supportive

In the previous post in Spanish, I tell the story of arriving on my friend’s family farm in the mountains … More

Antioquia La Más Educada

Hace un mes asistí la conferencia, (o si prefiere “el evento”) del SCAA, la Asociación de Cafes Especiales de Estados … More

I had the privilege of attending Michael Sheridan’s “Millions on the Margins” farmworker panel at SCAA. The aspect of the … More

Seeing both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the same day elicits a special kind of “manifest destiny” stomach-butterfly flutter … More

3 (plus a bonus) Questions with Park Brannen, Northeast Regional Barista Champion and wholesale support rep with Counter Culture’s NYC … More

Most NYC roasters are rooted in Brooklyn (all the ones interviewed so far in the NYC Roasters Speak series are). … More

Today’s newest guard of NYC coffee roasters is springing up—like battle-ready Athena from the head of Zeus—out of the expertise … More

Part two of a the NYC Roasters Speak series, expanding the stories behind the “Roasting Revival in the City that … More

WEIGH IN through March 23: Is roasting just for the men? Why are there so few female roasters among the … More

Williamsburg has been the definition of hipster Brooklyn cool for close to a decade now, but it isn’t just a … More

Sometimes it’s interesting to try to go back to the moment of inception, to that cognitive instant of synapse-firing when … More

Costa Rican coffee doesn’t yield the volume of beans for export that other Latin American countries have to offer, but … More

Come celebrate the stories of Latin American coffeepeople Wednesday, November 6th from 6-10pm at Nimba Cafe in Brooklyn! Get your … More

The book When Coffee Speaks is a collection of translated transcriptions from coffeepeople, but if you actually want to hear what coffeepeople … More

It’s alive. Now through September 1st I’m running a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money necessary to self publish a … More