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Finding Higher Grounds: an unpublished interview about a controversial coffee film The Pourover has always been built on interviews. I like reading (and listening to) smart people talk about things they’re interested in, and figured my readers would too. My first ever interview back in 2018 was a big
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Victoria Magaña Ledesma never intended to run a coffee farm. Studying Business Administration and Sociology at the University of Hawaii, she planned to join the management training program at the local Four Seasons Hotel and enter a career in hospitality. “I was going to climb the American corporate ladder,” she
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Last year, drought and heavy rain impacted coffee harvests around the world. The year before that, same thing. The climate crisis is coming for coffee, and the industry doesn’t seem to be moving swiftly enough. We’re told that coffee might not survive past 2050, which is when most
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Coffee companies want you to buy their products, obviously. To do this, they need you to feel good about what you’re buying, and ideally to feel good about the company itself. Sure they could just stick their coffee on the grocery store shelf alongside all the other brands, but
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Celebrity coffee brands are having a bit of a moment. Depending on your preference, you can buy coffee from A-list actors like Hugh Jackman and Tom Hanks, rock bands like Green Day and Korn, or rappers like Jadakiss and Snoop Dogg. Sadly, you can no longer buy your coffee from
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We’ve all heard the jokes about decaf, we’ve all seen the “death before decaf” memes. It’s true that for many companies, decaffeinated coffee is an afterthought at best and an annoyance at worst. Maybe it’s roasted without care, or it’s not dialed in with the
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The climate crisis is coming for coffee. It’s coming for everything else as well, of course, but coffee appears uniquely at risk due to its susceptibility to stress and disease. And that threat could be existential: multiple reports and articles in recent years have foretold “the end of coffee”
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Everyone loves a coffee gadget. If you search “coffee” on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, you get 4,542 results. They’re not all gizmos, of course; some are coffee table books, espresso-infused beauty products, or small companies trying to open a cafe. These are not the projects we’re concerned
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Coffee-less coffee is marketed as the sustainable solution to the climate crisis. But is it? And what about the farmers who will be left behind?
Coffee News Roundup
Welcome to another Coffee News Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘A Labor of Love: Gimme! Coffee Becomes a Co-Op’ - via the Ithaca Voice Gimme! Coffee, the Ithaca, New York-based coffee company whose workers formed what is believed to be the first ever barista union in 2018, has transitioned
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Welcome to this week’s Coffee News Roundup. Let’s round up the news. ‘Starbucks Weighs Selling Its UK Operations, Times Reports’ - via Bloomberg Starbucks has tasked its advisers with assessing interest in its UK operations as the company “evaluate[s] strategic options” for its international business, according to
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It’s time for another Coffee News Roundup. Ready? Let’s go. Starbucks Is Closing 16 Locations Due to Safety Concerns, Including 2 Unionized Stores - via Food & Wine 16 Starbucks locations across a number of large US cities will be shut down, the company announced this week—two