The specialty coffee industry was sad to see Jane Rockhold leave her long-held position at Espresso Supply last year when she ventured out into the world to explore her other passion, wine making. The people the most sad about it were the good folks at Espresso Supply, but owner Laura Sommers and the staff just […]
Well I’m getting a little tired of writing about Starbucks, but it seems the company is not done making news.
First up, the Associated Press reports that after closing 600 U.S. stores, 1,000 corporate workers are getting the axe today.
And on the other side of the world, Bloomberg Asia reports that Starbucks is shuttering 75 percent […]
Portland took a somewhat rudely long time to get to summer this year. We had rain and dark days through mid June. Then we got weeks of fairly uncomfortable heat. Yes, I sound like a big complainer, but that’s because Portland usually spoils us rotten in the summertime, with week after week of high 70s/low […]
What’s most interesting to me, reading this story in the New York Times is not the heavy-on-the-snark tone the writer adopts. That, when dealing with Starbucks, is only too easy, though admittedly fun, to do. But I find real interest in the customers in the story and their reaction to the closing of their local […]
OMG! Can you, like, believe that Vanessa Hudgens is the new babe-alicious spokesmodel for
Intelligentsia Coffee? Her BF, Zach Efron is soooooo QT. Anyhoo, this is like totally not true, it’s totally phat-phree, ya know… But it’s pretty effing rad, YNWIM?
p.s. to meister, jay, and anyone else looking to continue the thread below (which is actually […]
I’ve been asked to write for The Guardian UK in the past, and my editor contacted me after this recent mess at murky coffee started last week. So here’s my take on it. (The best part of the article, in my opinion, is that they re-spelled everything British, Hoff-style, if you will, i.e. “realise” and […]
So a couple of days ago my father-in-law asked if we had seen the new issue of Wired yet. It’s one of my favorite magazines, and since my father-in-law loves geeky tech stuff as much as me I bought him a subscription last year for Christmas. Anyway, the answer was no, but he said to […]
What a busy couple of weeks since getting back from Copenhagen, it all seems like a lifetime ago, even though in reality it’s been barely a month.
Lots of fun was had getting back to the roastery where I work, tasting samples of coffees generously donated from people around the world and experiencing the true variety of […]
Pretty cool coverage for Bikes to Rwanda. It’s a segment from MTV on the ping pong tournament for BTR at Ritual. Click on the image below to see the video or follow this link: http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A132001700990CF8/
Please excuse this late last post on the Bikes to Rwanda road-trip Clara and I just completed.
I last posted on Thursday, July 10, at which point we had reached Temple Coffee in Sacramento and were getting set to watch the bike race to benefit BTR.
I flew back to Portland on Friday night, decided to take […]
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