Tag Archive 'vietnam_coffee'

(Old) news of the week; ”Coffee mania” floods Kyiv

Posted by TheShot on 11 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Starbucks

What a strange newsweek it’s been in the coffee world. The best way to characterize it?: What’s old is suddenly new again.
Tuesday we had Starbucks’ latest cry for attention/help/suicide prevention with their mysterious “04.08.08″-on-a-lame-paper-cup campaign. Essentially, the publicity stunt announced the launch of their “new” Pike Place Roast and a “new” return to the old [...]

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Hurting the third world one latte at a time

Posted by TheShot on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade

Today the Chicago Maroon, an independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago, published a curious indictment of the Fair Trade movement: Chicago Maroon » Hurting the third world one latte at a time. Being the University of Chicago, the author takes a more world economic view of the issue.
While I completely disagree with [...]

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Vietnamese arabica coffee project facing failure

Posted by TheShot on 13 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Robusta

In response to the precipitous rise of specialty coffee in recent years, coffee’s traditional Big Four (Nestlé, Sara Lee, Kraft, and Proctor & Gamble) — rather than compete by raising their quality standards — responded instead by seeking cheaper bean stocks to squeeze out more profits. The Vietnamese robusta coffee market rode the wave of [...]

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Viet Nam News: Coffee quality drops off alarmingly

Posted by TheShot on 31 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew

Here’s a shocker. In today’s news, Vietnam seems to have suddenly discovered that much of their coffee is of utter crap quality: Viet Nam News | Coffee quality drops off alarmingly.
What’s curious is that the article seems taken aback by the discovery that Vietnamese coffee might not be the richest coffee in the world, as [...]

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Montreal’s International Coffee

Posted by TheShot on 05 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew

From today’s The Gazette, a primer on a few international coffee options in Montreal, Canada: How do you take your coffee?
The article includes example cafés, and customs, for Italy, Arabia, Greece, and Vietnam:

Cafe Milano: Just as no Italian will be caught in “short pants” after the age of 11, no Italian will be caught with [...]

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