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Starmaya F1: the Curious Case of an Improbable Coffee Hybrid
I’ve been slightly obsessed with one of Luiz Paulo Pereira’s coffee plants for two years now. Luiz himself first served it as a delicate and sparkling pour-over to me, somewhere in the sea of the 2022 Specialty Coffee Association Expo in Boston, and it hasn’t left my mind since.
The Triple Bottom Line and the Coffee-Buying Conundrum
The Coffee-Buying Conundrum and a Coffee-Buyer’s Philosophy
From Farm to Front Counter: How Oaxaca’s specialty cafes bridge the gap between producers and baristas
We often think of the specialty café solely as a feature of the Global North.
Breaking Boundaries: Coffee from Vietnam
Breaking Boundaries Growing up in Vietnam, we thought we knew what Vietnamese Robusta would be like: woody, smoky, rubber-like, not special…
Colonial Contrasts: Java and Sumatra
Colonial Contrasts: Java and Sumatra Java’s role in coffee’s history is well-known, Sumatra’s much less so. One reason is that the coffee industry of the latter was developed by exploiting the fame of the former.