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…
Don’t Wave Your Stink Fist: Some Tips on Being a Coffee Traveler
By Craig Holt, Founder, Atlas Coffee Importers Coffee is such a great gig. It allows many of us the opportunity to visit a broad variety of cultures in some of the world’s most…
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…
Being There: A Sensory Diary of a Trip to Brazil
By Christopher Schooley, Coffee Design & Experience Coordinator, SCAA, and Lily Kubota, Content & Communications Manager, SCAA Traveling to a coffee producing country is an experience like no other. Seeing coffee production first-hand…
90+ Profiles: Getting to Know Francisca and Oscar Chacon
Who are you and what do you do in coffee? My name is Oscar Chacon. My wife Francisca and I have spent our entire lives producing coffee, and we have recently built and…
Portfolio | Issue No. 5 (2012) | Business
As the demand for specialty coffee grows, so do the needs of our many coffee industry customers. To meet your growing needs, Hartley Transportation is committed to becoming the most knowledgeable and reliable…
