I Want Coffee, Not Coffee
Or: How I learned to appreciate cream and sugar again By Nicholas Cho Recently, I had the privilege of producing a “person on the street” video segment that was shown during the 2011 SCAA…
Does Quality Ensure Sustainability?
By Lily Kubota As with all industries, specialty coffee has a number of long-standing premises that, founded or not, are often taken as something akin to gospel. One of these premises is that…
The Case for Active Goodness
By Ric Rhinehart It was in 2000 that Google employees Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel first wrote a phrase on a conference room whiteboard, three little words that would become the unofficial statement…
What Can Specialty Coffee Accomplish?
By Peter Giuliano As we all know, coffee is a uniquely global product. Grown only within the tropics and typically consumed outside of them, coffee is one of the rare luxuries that transcends boundaries…
Connecting to the Cause
How to Find Charity (Even) When Deciding Not to By Tim Castle No matter who they are or what they do, people look for connections and community. After all, it’s not for nothing…
Reassessing the Role of Certifications
By Tracy Ging About a year ago at the annual roasters Guild retreat, we posed the question in the roundtable discussions, “is fair Trade dead?” We selected the subject because it was a…
