“The cups might break, but the images recycle endlessly.”
Fish names are hard
“An anchovy, to get to an important point, is a... Read more →
“The cups might break, but the images recycle endlessly.”
Coffee leaf rust is bad, but at least in the short term it may not be the threat you think it is
Bitter, black, strong; that’s the way (uh-huh uh-huh) I like it. But I also want to know more.
In Sierra Leone, a hunt for long lost species of coffee succeeds
It took more than a hundred years, but eventually the United States too developed a recognisable coffee culture.
Espresso is the canonical coffee of Italy, even though the original espresso was something entirely different. How did espresso happen? And what happened when it got to England?
Quite by coincidence, I listened to two podcasts about coffee back to back. Well, it wasn’t truly a coincidence; I saw that there were two in my queue and so I interfered with the ordering to listen to them one after the other. Anyway, Benjamen Walker’s Wake up and smell the coffee was the kind […]
If you really want to do good by spending more on your coffee, you need to look beyond Fair Trade and other certification schemes.
I’m working on a complex story that includes the trade in coffee, so when my chum Luigi linked to resourcetrade.earth, from Chatham House, I rushed on over to see about coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated. The thing that mainly caught my attention was weird little Belgium. ((Not counting the absurd display of arrows going to […]
Questions of taste, good taste, ethics, and other things that might reasonably be thought of as philosophical in nature.