What a busy week it’s been here at Barista Magazine’s HQ in Portland, Oregon; We’re in the thick of the work building the August/September issue, which ”in case you didn’t know ”will be our World […]
When I was 16, I somehow convinced the biology teacher to let me write poems about nature rather than taking biology class (I grew up in Berkeley, what’s it to ya?). I went on to […]
ROBERTO PABLO CALDAS PORTUGAL BARISTA CHAMPION OF PERU Barista Mag: Before coffee, did you work in a different job or industry, or what did you study in school? Roberto: I wanted to be a […]
Last week’s meeting with Congressman Earl Blumenauer brought a couple of esteemed members of the Oregon wine industry in to meet with the local coffee roaster and retailing community. The Congressman had said in prior […]
In early 2012, after being selected by the World Coffee Events organization as the official espresso machine for the World Barista Championship (WBC) for 2012 “2014, Nuova Simonelli launched the first of its kind traveling […]
One of Barista Magazine‘s oldest and dearest friends, Björg Brend, emailed us the other day with the top secret list of the speakers scheduled to appear at the 2013 Nordic Barista Cup, which will take […]
The first installment of our new feature in the magazine “Countdown to Colombia” debuted in the Feb/March issue of Barista Magazine. Countdown will run through the June/July issue and this year’s World Barista Championship in […]
Well that was another amazing WBC. But while that was going on, coffee news continued to break. The latest comes from the world of health care, and it turns out that coffee consumption can be […]
Here’s an interesting story from the world of wine that relates rather directly, I think, to coffee. Researchers at Cal-Tech recently did a study where subjects were asked to taste different wines and rate them. […]
I sometimes freelance for The Guardian about coffee related issues, and my latest rant, this time on laptop use and free Wi-Fi in cafes, is up HERE. Interestingly, in writing this, I contacted James and […]
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