Who Will Fund the Future of Coffee?
For paid subscribers: some thoughts on the loss of USAID funding for coffee research, and the possibly misguided hope that corporations will step up.
Weird Coffee
Coffee is big and complex, and with lots of room for weirdness. These articles look at the strange underbelly of an ever-changing industry.
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The Graveyard of Coffee Kickstarters
There are a lot of coffee gadgets on Kickstarter. Some are successful, others less so. This is the story of the latter.
Why is Beanless Coffee?
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?
The Oddly Poetic Plagiarism of BaristaSpeech.com
A website is taking coffee content, running it through paraphrasing software, and reposting it without permission. The results are... interesting.