Posted by TheShot on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Quality Issues
One of the worst kept secrets on this site is our disdain for paper cups — and the places that insist upon them. Sure, some of our beef is with living in a disposable culture. But if you’re going to offer us some of the freshest coffee beans around, have it carefully roasted to perfection, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 17 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Quality Issues
We’ve long lamented over being served good coffee in ridiculous paper cups. But not everyone is coffee obsessive enough to review most of the espresso shots available in the city — and particularly the expectedly nasty ones. But today the Journal of Consumer Research published results from a study that asked, “Does coffee in a [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 10 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society
From today’s Edmonton Journal, a café co-owner, Antonio Bilotta, has said “enough is enough” to the environmental waste of paper cups for take-out coffee beverages: A cup of coffee to go — and hold the cup. Quoting the article and Mr. Bilotta:
“If your product is so good, then force the customers.”
Bilotta wants to see people [...]
Posted by TheShot on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Quality Issues
It’s old news. We’ve repeated this story many times, and every news agency seems to run it when the editorial board gets desperate, but it bears repeating. Today Reuters published an article from Torino (the world’s espresso café motherland, in my book) on the rules for making a proper espresso: Art of making espresso lies [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society
The online magazine American Chronicle featured an article yesterday that covered the recent rise of the designer espresso cup: American Chronicle: History Of Espresso Coffee Cups. (Though calling it a “history” is a bit of a misstatement.) In 1992, Illycaffè decided that art and design should be better woven into the espresso-sipping experience, and the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 14 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Quality Issues
A local, homespun, philosophical yarn in today’s Gulf Breeze News (Gulf Breeze, FL … why do all the crackpots seem to come from Florida?) noted how our approach to life can failingly be like concentrating on the cup and not the coffee within it: The coffee, not the cup that holds it, is what matters. [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 10 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Starbucks
In case you thought last week’s coffee lifestyle article was something of a joke, a headline from today’s Muncie, IN The Star Press might convince you otherwise: Coffee: Drink or lifestyle? How about both? | The Star Press - www.thestarpress.com - Muncie, IN. Except here your lifestyle statement isn’t so much in your choice of [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 11 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
Back in March I posted an article espousing the taste and espresso-drinking experience virtues of the ceramic cup: Green or not: lose the paper cup. I also poked a little fun at the inevitable “carbon footprint” debate that would follow — i.e., are disposable paper cups more environmentally friendly than a manufactured, regularly washed coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 May 2006 | Tagged as: Quality Issues
As mentioned in a previous post, out of curiosity I recently ordered a copy of Espresso Italiano Tasting (€18) available from the Istituto Internazionale Assaggiatori Caffè (IIAC), or the International Institute of Coffee Tasters. It’s the closest reference I’ve found to what CoffeeRatings.com is about. This 168-page book is available in Spanish & Portuguese, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 20 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
Of all the reasons to drink your espresso out of a for-here ceramic cup… in today’s Anchorage Daily News Bill Sherwonit professes doing so as part of his “move toward becoming a more responsible espresso drinker.” No, I’m not making this up: adn.com | life : Housecleaning tips: Begin with small steps and see where [...]
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