Field Notes from Pu’er, China: Coffee Production in the Land of Tea
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America This spring, I had the opportunity to visit China’s Yunnan Province to tour the region’s coffee farms. Yunnan Province is located in…
Japanese Coffee Roasters Visit U.S. Roasting Companies
By Meister, Customer Support, Counter Culture Coffee How many of us in specialty coffee seek out the hippest new café as soon as we arrive at our destination when we travel, or hunt…
Regional Perspectives from SCAA International Education Partners
For our most recent issue of The Chronicle, we explored many different aspects of traveling as a coffee professional. As a global trade organization, SCAA works with coffee folks from around the world…
SCAA Coffee Science Origin Trip: Reflections of a Facilitator of Learning
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America As the Coffee Science Manager I am constantly brainstorming the differing ways I can use my skill set to communicate the science…
Building Bridges: How to Have a Meaningful Coffee Travel Experience
By Peter Giuliano, Director of Symposium, Specialty Coffee Association of America Coffee travelers come from a variety of places: most often it’s someone from a roasting company – whose job it is to…
Traveling With Purpose
By Tracy Ging, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, S&D Coffee and Tea Specialty pioneers broke new ground when they began traveling to origin. What once was a nameless and faceless commodity came alive with stories,…
Salzburg Café Diaries: Searching for the “Coffee” in Coffeehouse
By Shauna Alexander Mohr, Consultant In June, just after the World 2012 Barista Championships concluded in Vienna, my family traveled to Salzburg. Intentionally, I didn’t ask around in advance about good cafés or…
What I Learned From Walking: South Sudan, Cultural Sensitivity, and the Search for Wild Coffea arabica
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America Disclaimer: I went to Africa with no idea what to expect. I could not imagine the right way to ready myself for my…
Korea’s Exploding Interest in Specialty Coffee
By Kyonghee Shin, Freelance Writer, Apprentice Roaster at Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters In 2007, a serial-drama titled Coffee Prince hit Korean television screens; with 20 percent of Korean households tuning in weekly. The…
Exploring Guatemala with Max Quirin
An Interview by Lily Kubota How did you end up working in coffee? I started pushing the big wooden forks for turning over the thin coffee layer on the patio at the coffee…
