Southdown: A Place You Want to Be

Southdown: A Place You Want to Be One of the unexpected benefits of working for an importer is that … More

New York Coffee Festival

It’s happening. The New York Coffee Festival opens tomorrow, and not only will coffeepeople from New York be representing hard, … More

As soon I knew that I’d be living in Park Slope for two months this summer, I told myself that … More

Too much time has lapsed in which I’ve been a regular at Brooklyn’s Coffee Mob and have not written a … More

I grew up in New Hampshire, and about the age (3rd grade) that I realized what New Hampshire was, and … More

Gorilla Coffee has its roots in Brooklyn and is continuing to evolve along with the city’s cutting edge of coffee … More

Kind of like coffee, books are all around us and we probably don’t know too much about what goes into … 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

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

For the February issue of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal I wrote an article by that title, “Roasting Revival in … More

I’ve finished the book so the blog is back! I just finished writing and putting together “When Coffee Speaks,” a … More

Living a city that never sleeps in a highly developed nation in a fully globalized world, sometimes it’s hard to … More

If New York City were in the tropics, all Starbucks would open onto hillsides filled with coffee, and patrons would … More