Stories in Issue 40
Ecuador
Farmers are moving away from commodity coffee towards specialty coffee, while Ecuadorians are challenging the dominance of soluble coffee as a…
Masha Vinograd
Is a coffee without context a coffee really worth having? I say no.
Bernd Braune - Creator of Comandante grinder and Supremo Coffee
For those not yet committed to the ritual of meticulous brewing each morning, discussing conical burr angles and technical polymers with…
Boarded Up
An increasingly frequent phenomenon, these gap-toothed high streets—victims of our age of late modernity.
Long Live Decaf!
Decaffeinated coffee is experiencing unprecedented popularity.
Coffee and Music: Crisis and Creation
Classical music salons, 16th-century Islamic courts, Bedouin tents, North American highways, Japanese jazz bars, co-working spaces, and sensory labs have all…
Sampling Black Cxffee: The Once and Future Possibilities of a Colonial Commodity
What can coffee teach us about community, togetherness, and peace?
A Crucial Connection
Imagine you oversaw nonprofit community health programmes in multiple countries, operated several coffee businesses in Ethiopia, and conducted coffee research on…
Coffee’s Hidden Gas
When coffee is roasted, heat causes chemical reactions that create gases, with a big chunk being carbon dioxide (CO2).
Noah Lane
Noah Lane is an Australian free surfer and co-founder of Foam, a specialty coffee shop located in Bundoran on the west…
City Profile: Sarajevo
In Sarajevo, coffee is more than a drink; it is a centuries-old ritual woven into the city’s cultural fabric.