High Prices Jolt Coffee Market
By Marvin G. Perez Rising food prices are eating into corporate earnings, and the coffee industry is no exception. For seasoned traders paying the current price above $2.30 for a pound of Arabica…
Our Top Four: The 2011 SCAA Sustainability Award Finalists
By SCAA’s Sustainability Council The Sustainability Council created the Sustainability Award in 2003 to promote, encourage and honor the efforts of those serving as role models in fields of sustainability. Each year, the…
Coffee and Sustainability: Are we Having the Impact we Intend?
By Tracy Ging Sustainability has been part of the discourse in the specialty coffee industry almost from the beginning and certainly for a better part of the past two decades. Early on, with…
The Specialty Coffee Industry Shows Initiative Worldwide
By Bruce Mullins The specialty coffee industry’s Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative (GCQRI) has officially been launched, and has begun its historic multi-year journey towards a more complete understanding of the science behind…
Important or Self-Important: The Role and Influence of a Barista
By Tracy Ging with significant contribution by James Hoffmann After the World Barista Championship (WBC) this year in London, I got to be a fly on the wall and listen in on a…
In Search of the Holy Grail: Mapping the Espresso Landscape
By Shanna Germain Espresso. It’s a drink, a lifestyle, a ritual, an addiction. It’s an end-goal and a dream concoction. It’s an art and a science, a measurable entity and a mystical experience….
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…
Welcome to the Issues Issue
By Peter Giuliano The coffee plant is barely domesticated. Its cultivated form is almost identical to the wild coffee plants that still grow in the forests of Western Ethiopia. As such, it thrives…
