Coffee Fest
Top Cup Challenge: Win Money!
Pacific Natural Foods debuted the Top Cup Challenge at Coffee Fest Seattle last fall, and it was a huge hit! If you didn’t get a chance to participate in the Challenge, however, never fear: it’s […]
Month: December 2009
Baristas
Got Perry?
So I was just skimming through my daily digest of coffee news stories and saw this from the Sun of San Berandino and the Inland Empire (Calif.) on two-time USBC champion Heather Perry. Apparently Heather […]
News
Random Bits of Coffee (related) News
A couple of new news stories out today reporting that coffee consumption can help ward off diabetes. One here and one here. An interesting note, it’s not just coffee, but lots of it, specifically at […]
Baristas
A Truly Remarkable Barista
I happened to cruise by La Marzocco USA‘s blog today, and I’m so glad I did! Gina Palandri of Espresso Partners wrote the most wonderful story about her encounter with a barista named Em. Gina […]
Coffee Producers
Give a Green Gift to Kenyan Farmers
In an email I received from Diana Roach of ACDI/VOCA,I was thrilled to learn that the organization’s “The Greenest Gift” program has raised $6,000 so far! But there is still a ways to go ”the […]
Coffee
Want a Nobel Prize? Drink Coffee.
U.S. President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize today in Olso, Norway. Although he said he had been inspired by the work and lives of previous winners like Gandhi and King, he didn’t mention […]
Random
Sprudge's Holiday Gift Guide
I was cruising around Zachary and Jordan’s HI-larious coffee news site, sprudge.com, and I just had to repost something I found there: it is what very well may be the dumbest invention I’ve ever heard […]
Random
Sprudge’s Holiday Gift Guide
I was cruising around Zachary and Jordan’s HI-larious coffee news site, sprudge.com, and I just had to repost something I found there: it is what very well may be the dumbest invention I’ve ever heard […]
Travel
Coffee Safari in Uganda
We all know that the best coffees rarely stay for consumption in the countries that produce them ”when they can fetch higher prices from buyers in richer parts of the world like the United States, […]