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Monthly Archives: November 2011
What’s Behind Rising Coffee Prices?
By Max Nicholas-Fulmer The last time the New York “C” contract reached the levels we’ve witnessed over the last few months was 1997, when futures hit $3.20/pound. The impetus for that move was neither frost nor drought, but the simple … Continue reading
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The Soul of Coffee
By Peter Giuliano There is an academic discipline that studies the way human beings relate to food and the culture we develop around the ways we eat and drink. It’s called foodways and it documents and analyzes what we do … Continue reading
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Verve Coffee’s Colby Barr on How to Help People Discover Richer Coffee
By Noah Sanders Wed., Nov. 16 2011 at 8:00 AM In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we’ve been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why … Continue reading
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Hugh Jackman finds inspiration with Ethiopian coffee farmers.
While visiting Ethiopia with World Vision, Hugh Jackman met a coffee farmer named Dukale. He met his family and friends, worked the farm with Dukale and saw how much a community could be benefit from one person’s hard work, coupled … Continue reading
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Coffee Quality and Sustainability
By Shauna Alexander Mohr In the mid-1990s, before most industries were tackling sustainability, specialty coffee companies came together with NGOs and research institutions to address issues such as shade-grown coffee, organics and Fair Trade. 1996 marked the First Sustainable Coffee … Continue reading
Swiss Water (Decaf)
To the sophisticated decaf consumer, decaffeinated coffee is a very distinct beverage. This counts just as much for the folks who drink a double cap on their way to work in the morning as those who enjoy a cup of decaf on … Continue reading
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The (Coffee) World is Flat
By Peter Giuliano Coffea Arabica and Homo Sapiens have a lot in common. Both evolved in Ethiopia, and crossed the Red Sea before fanning out all over the globe. The human race inhabited and spread its culture through every corner of … Continue reading
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The Seven Most Common Mistakes Coffee Companies Make When Going Global and How To Avoid Them
By Lily Kubota on November 4, 2011 in Coffee Business In the not too distant future, businesses will be placed into one of two categories: those that skillfully entered into the global marketplace and those that sheepishly exited out of business. A … Continue reading
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VST baskets
VST claims that its baskets are more consistent in commercial operation than regular baskets. The study does not support this claim. Random shot to shot variation is large enough that the differences in conventional baskets are only a minor exacerbating … Continue reading
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