SCAA Seattle: Winners and Losers at the Big Coffee Show
Eleven years have passed since my first trip to the Big Show that is SCAA’s conference and expo. So much has changed! So much hasn’t.
Espresso Cocktail
Sometimes you want coffee. Sometimes you want a cocktail. Why not have both? It should be made abundantly clear this cocktail calls for a freshly pulled shot of espresso… and no, there really isn’t a substitute. Sorry.
Read moreThe knowledge of how to fight Roya, and the money for fungicide, the labor to treat it, and to cut back the trees deals a huge blow to the income and profits of the coffee farm. The real impact is on organic farms, whether certified farms or organic-by-default farms, on casual coffee farmers who have little technical knowledge, and on smallholder farms in general. In a couple crop cycles, Roya unmanaged is the death of the coffee farm.
–Tom Owen
Idled by Cancer Cure, Researchers Grope for Purpose
I guess I missed the news. Surely there’s been a spate of headlines about the discovery of a cure for cancer? For Autism? Alzheimer’s? For male pattern baldness?
Today’s Favorite Thing: Cuissential’s SlickDrip
This dripper does what your typical plastic or ceramic pour-over cone should do — namely, hold a #2 cone paper filter while you brew coffee with it — but this one collapses into a disk about an inch deep when you’re not using it to brew your precious, needful cup.
Tasting: Costa Rica Cafetalera Herbazu
…lovely, very intense, salted caramel sort of fragrance that I used to associate with great Indonesian lots years ago before they all started to taste like mulch and wood moss.
Tweetstream
- RT @BillNye: Can't wait! t.co/RGtuUK8Q45
- RT @halvorson: 11yo: I think Donald Trump cares way less about being president than he does about winning. Dude.
- Just realized the purple eggplant I picked up at the market is sporting its own, er... emoji. t.co/xjlDvdthTN
- Again? It's like they just can't help themselves... t.co/gU5YFemcPI
- My Twitter feed this morning is mostly puppies and kitties. Thank-you, @anamariecox. t.co/kZLpOcAgch
- RT @Lin_Manuel: Good morning. Eyes up. Hearts up. Minds sharp. Compassion on full blast. (Sips coffee) Okay let's go.
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