Coffee Notes from All Over

by | Aug 13, 2008 | Coffee

The cool kids at Barismo do a deft take on a David Letterman style top-ten list with 10 Reasons Coffee Doesn’t Taste Like the Bag Descriptions. Number 10 – Juan Valdez is dead. Get over it. Number 9 – The marketing team ran out of ways to say,...

Starbucks Stumbles, We Eat Schadenfreude Pie

by | Aug 5, 2008 | Coffee, Featured

It’s enough to make even Motley Fool cheerleader Alyce Lomax choke on her coffee. Consider — 600 store closings (or 12,000 job cuts) 1000 additional job cuts at the home office a first ever quarterly corporate loss, and diminished expectations for the rest...
Just for Clicks: The Caffeine Click Test

Just for Clicks: The Caffeine Click Test

by | Jul 23, 2008 | Coffee

First a disclaimer: I’m not of the “I drink coffee for a caffeine high” camp. There’s two reasons for that. The first being that, as I have a long history of drinking cup after cup (after cup) all day long, I guess I have something in the way...

Great Moments in Coffee Blogging History!

by | Jul 23, 2008 | Coffee, Meta

Seven years ago today the fine folks at Blogger (You remember them? Swallowed by Google?) recognized Bloggle [the Coffee Odyssey] as a Blog of Note. Oh sure… you can smile your isn’t that nice smile now, but it was a Big Deal in 2001. It was like…...
Coffee, Climate Change and Canaries

Coffee, Climate Change and Canaries

by | Jul 21, 2008 | Coffee, Featured

What’s the impact of global climate change on coffee? I’ve had conversations with a number of coffee farmers — particularly folks in South and Central America — about what they’re experiencing on their farms. The stories they tell are of...

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