Posted by TheShot on 09 Dec 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
We’d apologize for the lack of postings this past month, but that’s partly the result of good editing. The trouble is that we typically board up our windows and hide from most coffee blogs this time of year, as most become inundated by insipid annual round-ups of coffee gift ideas to help cash in on [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Good coffee cultures are exported. Starbucks grew by churning out a mutant strain of Italian coffee culture by the thousands. Fifteen years ago, we saw cafés in Prague that boasted “Seattle style lattes.” And while New York City is beating its chest lately over its recent coffee prowess — emulating one of its most famous [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
In today’s, er, tomorrow’s news from London’s The Independent, classic Italian stove-top/moka pot coffee manufacturer, Bialetti, announced that they are closing shop in Italy and moving their operations to Eastern Europe: Rivals too hot for Italy’s classic coffee pot – Europe, World – The Independent. In Italy — where the Bialetti has enjoyed decades of [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 31 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
The coffee culture export trade is in high swing, whether it is Stumptown Roasters opening in Amsterdam or Blue Bottle Coffee following Intelligentsia‘s footsteps and invading L.A.: Drip Bar, a Mobile Blue Bottle Café | NBC Los Angeles. Yes, that last article cites the tiresome caffeine-riff cliché abused by many an unimaginative coffee writer — [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 27 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
Coffee is as universal a beverage as you can find in this country, and yet countless special interest groups seem to identify with coffee as it were their own exclusive thing. This identification may have a lot to do with a modern culture that values hype and hyperactivity — and associates that most with caffeine [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Publications frequently run out of ideas, which is why the Wall Street Journal seems to be jacked on coffee articles of late. (But don’t worry — we have no plans to tell you what investments to have in your portfolio.) Just two days after making the ridiculous assertion that Illy is taking on Starbucks, the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 15 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society
Should you find yourself in Zurich, Switzerland in the coming year, the Johann Jacobs Museum is hosting an exhibit devoted to coffee’s cultural history titled “Coffee: a tale of irresistible temptation“: swissinfo – Coffee exhibition stirs seductive passions. The article offers a little cultural trivia about coffee (e.g., did you know people once tipped the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 02 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew
While we’re on the subject of international coffee, today’s The Hindu (India… and I guess quite obviously so) published an article documenting Melbourne, Australia’s claim to be at the heart of that nation’s coffee culture: The Hindu : Magazine / Columns : Coffee anyone?. Melbourne has a pretty strong case. They have a rich coffee [...]
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