Coffee
Musical Jobs
Seems people are moving around so much these days it could warrant a regular column… ¢ Erin Meister leaves Time Out New York for Counter Culture. ¢ Justin Teisl leaves Alterra for Ritual. ¢ Michael […]
Year: 2008
Coffee
Friends from Panama visit the Northwest
Ken and I are excited to go to Stumptown’s Meet the Producers event tonight where we’ll hear from esteemed coffee producers Ricardo Koyner of Duncan Estate, Rachel and Daniel Peterson of Hacienda La Esmeralda, and […]
Luminaries
New issue, starring Stephen Morrissey
Criminy, how did it get to be August already? Feels like only yesterday that it was June and we were in Copenhagen, Denmark, watching Stephen Morrissey, Barista Champion of Ireland, win the 9th Annual World […]
Friends
Other Things That Taste Good
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 […]
News
The Hits Keep Coming
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 […]
Coffee
Stumptown Summer BBQ
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 […]
News
Sunday News and Notes
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. […]
Uncategorized
High School Musical 4, brought to you by Intelligentsia Coffee
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… […]
Rants
Sarah Goes Brit ”with her spelling, that is…
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 […]
Friends
Clover Gets Wired
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 […]