There and Back Again: A Coffee Decade Comes Full-Circle
By Nick Cho This past decade has been busy for our specialty coffee industry. While reminiscing about the past is a bit arbitrary, there’s a growing sense that we’re entering into a new…
Quality: What is it and how do we deliver it?
Reflections on the year’s SCAA Symposium By Kevin Knox At this year’s SCAA Symposium one presenter asked whether quality alone was enough to equal sustainability. Another suggested jettisoning the carefully crafted SCAA and…
Why Standards Matter: The GFA Example
By Mark Inman In the fall of 2010, a San Francisco-based group called The Seedling Projects organized a group of known food producers, writers, grocers, farmers and chefs to create “The Good Food…
Defining Specialty Coffee and the Case for Standards
By Ric Rhinehart For the past year or so, concerns about the supply of quality coffee demanded by the specialty market have swirled about with varying degrees of intensity. Shortfalls in Colombia and…
A Question of Quality
Defining specialty coffee: Perspective from the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe By Mick Wheeler I am delighted to give a brief and hopefully succinct update on developments and initiatives being undertaken by the Speciality Coffee Association…
