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Read All About It!

November 14, 2011 Ken Comments Off

I just downloaded my ipad edition of this week’s New Yorker. Actually I did it as soon as I got my reminder email that the iPad version was available. Why? Well because of this: Kelefa […]

Chinese Coffee Ritual

October 31, 2011 Ken Comments Off

Here’s a little story out of the Bay Area that caught my eye today. It’s a report from SFGate on a new café in Beijing, China that is using Ritual Coffee. I like the backstory […]

Severe Storms Rock Central America

October 24, 2011 baristamagazine Comments Off

Our friend, Henry Hueck, a coffee farmer and the organizer of the coffee conference Ramacafe, from Nicaragua, has been keeping us abreast of developments across Central America as tropical storms continue to pummel the countries […]

Brewing News

April 6, 2011 Ken Comments Off

Two news stories out today caught our attention, and while they came from opposite sides of the country, they both feature the growing pour-over and manual-brewing movement in cafés. The first is from the Washington […]

Record Earthquake and Tsunami Rock Japan

March 11, 2011 Ken Comments Off

News broke this morning here in Oregon of the tsunami, which started yesterday after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook the ocean floor just off the coast of Japan. The waves reached our Pacific Coast, […]

Climate Change and Coffee (UPDATE)

March 8, 2011 Ken Comments Off

Excellent story from the Seattle Times yesterday about climate change and how it is affecting farmers in Costa Rica. You can read it here. “We want to prove to the coffee-consuming world that we’re doing […]

Top Ten?

February 25, 2011 baristamagazine Comments Off

We just saw this list of the Top Ten Barista Blogs from the Culinary Arts College, and were pleasantly surprised to see that Pasteboard made the cut. We like to see more attention paid to […]

TED, Meet Coffee. Coffee, this is TED.

February 23, 2011 Ken Comments Off

I was talking to Stephen Morrissey of Intelligentsia at Coffee Fest Chicago this last week and he was brimming with excitement over the latest project he (and many others) are working on. It’s called Coffee […]

Hat v. Hairnet

January 12, 2011 Ken 1

The New York Times has a photo essay up today featuring a number of baristas in the city and the chapeaus they don. Why so many baristas in hats? Well because the city health department […]

We Heart the Green Cafe Network

December 10, 2010 Sarah Comments Off

There’s a new nonprofit darling on the coffee industry scene, and we think they’re pretty great. Actually, they’re not that new: the Green Cafe Network has been around for a while, but they’re really gaining […]