Archive for June, 2005

Saving Cafe Culture

There’s some really interesting conversations happening at portafilter.net… a group blog that’s powered by some of the best young guns in the coffee retailer & espresso bar trade. Topics run along the lines of, espresso consistency: good or bad? and whatever happened to cafe culture?

How the Siren Lost Her Nipples

At the risk of seeming Mermaid-obsessed of late, yet another post about Starbucks… “…there is a lot of confusion between the different mythological half-women. Typically they are called Sirens - both the half-bird/half-woman and the half-fish/half-woman varieties. The fish type are usually …

Single-Cup Coffee Giveaway

Dust off your keyboards, single-cup fans… Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is giving away a Keurig B-50 brewer every day for 30 days. All you’z got to do is get your writing game on… it’s an essay contest. (Yeah… that part was my idea. Nyah.)Category: …

First cup, Second Cup, Third Cup…

A well-woven, slightly wistful tale of trying to hold on to one’s cultural identity (in this case, it just happens to include an Ethiopian coffee ceremony) while being far from home. A longish snippet (it’s a longish article and there’s much more): …