Tag Archive 'malaysia_coffee'

Not Invented Here: San Francisco coffee that clearly isn’t from San Francisco

Posted by 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 [...]

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Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and Vietnam: Coffee culture in Asia

Posted by 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 [...]

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