Passages: Alfred Peet, 1920 - 2007
Posted by deCadmus on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee
Alfred Peet — founder of Peet’s Coffee, grandfather of specialty coffee in the U.S. — died this week.
Mr. Peet opened his coffee shop at the corner of Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, California in 1966, and awakened the American palate to the high-grown, high quality coffees of Costa Rica, …



