Importing the exported Eastern European café
Posted by TheShot on 06 May 2009 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Starbucks
An Op-Ed piece in Monday’s Washington Post noted the curious phenomenon of local culture that is exported, reinterpreted abroad, and then imported back again. The article’s topic was the wildly received recent openings of Starbucks cafés in cities such as Warsaw and Prague — with the backdrop of their centuries-old coffeehouse culture traditions: Anne Applebaum [...]
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