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We’re used to being able to grab a coffee at any time, from a cafe on every corner, made to our exact specifications in mere seconds. But this is a relatively new phenomenon. For hundreds of years coffee was hard to get hold of, expensive, and tasted terrible. That’
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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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Hello and welcome to the year 2022, which looks and feels a lot like 2021. But here we are, January 1st, and what better way to start off a new rotation around the sun than by looking back on the year gone and all the coffee news that happened. Well,
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Welcome to the Coffee News Roundup! Let’s see what’s been going on over the past seven days. (Before we get started, this article in Sprudge lists a number of organizations, coffee-based and not, raising money to help people in Timor-Leste affected by the recent flooding in the country.
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It’s another Saturday, and so another Coffee News Roundup. Not a huge amount to talk about this week, but talk about it we shall. ICO Releases Flagship Annual Report: ‘The Value of Coffee’ - via Daily Coffee News The International Coffee Organization’s annual report on the global coffee
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Hello and welcome to 2021, and with it the Coffee News Roundup review of 2020. 2020 was a bad year, obviously. A lot of people died in a worldwide pandemic that was grossly mishandled by many governments, and a lot more people were economically decimated by the bad choices those
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Short answer: yes, I believe so. Long answer: well, read the article. Last year, while doing research for this article in Sierra Magazine detailing ways to lower your personal coffee carbon footprint (a slightly futile activity, it turns out), I decided to take my own advice and replace my paper
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It’s another weekend (according to the calendar anyway) which means it’s time for another Coffee News Roundup. Let’s see what’s been going on, shall we? COVID-19 Updates - via Various Yes, we’re restarting this section, due to a few new bits and pieces that didn’
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A couple of days ago my brother-in-law texted to ask me from whom he should buy coffee. He wanted to support local, independent roasters struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. So, I had a think. There are the obvious places, but I wanted to give some options. I
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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup, your weekly reminder that the world is a strange and petty place. From lawsuits to bad business decisions to thinking that coffee and Coca-Cola go together, the coffee industry is a non-stop soap opera of eccentricity and capriciousness. Although
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Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup, which finds Southeast Michigan deep into a bewildering winter where every single applicable weather event has happened bar a snow tornado. And, at this rate, we’re due for one. It does make it hard to acclimatize and really lean into the
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Hello and welcome to another weekly Coffee News Roundup, and another week where very little happened. Nobody was bought out, nobody launched a new pineapple-flavored rainbow coffee-like hot drink, nobody called the cops on two people for simply existing in a cafe. So let us look at the little that