Mutually Supportive

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

Antioquia La Más Educada

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

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

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

I mentioned in “Seriously Seed to Cup” that the two most frequent coffee questions I get are “what’s the best…

I’ve been speaking Spanish for 10 years. The last time I took an academic class was 2006. I’ve been speaking…

“Seed to cup” is the coffee industry’s equivalent of “farm to table,” a much used phrase intended to describe one…

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

It’s Monday morning. It’s rainy and gray and dreary out. There are lots of coffees that claim to save the…

At the Ground to Grounds coffee tasting/coffee talk event in DC a few weeks ago, a woman was flipping through…

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

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

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

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

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