Tag Archive 'critical_consumptionism'

Coffee is entertainment, but good coffee needs “soul”

Posted by on 24 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Starbucks

Please repeat after me: “Food and drink is entertainment.” What do I mean by that? Public tastes in entertainment change. We no longer attend social dances or go to the circus. In fact, if someone probably heard their neighbors were doing that, they would hide any of their small children. And instead of seeing the [...]

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In defense of better coffee, Or: What I did on my 15 minutes of fame

Posted by on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Starbucks

Dealing with the media can often feel like waiting for a Muni bus. Just when it’s been so long that you forgot that they exist, suddenly three pull up in a row over the span of a few minutes. This time the media frenzy surrounded the recent openings of Blue Bottle Cafe and Coffee Bar [...]

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