NYTimes’ on globetrotting coffee slurpers
Good article on superstar coffee buyers in today’s New York Times by Peter Meehan (who also wrote a great piece last December on the NYC espresso scene). In To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail we get a glimpse at the coffee hunting ways of Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson, Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Terroir’s George Howell (whose Cup of Excellence program is credited with bootstrapping much of this new coffee buying paradigm). I imagine and hope this will make many more people curious to experience some of these remarkable coffees.
Perhaps someday we’ll even see a mass of coffee connoisseurs happy to pay as much for a cup of “expensive” coffee as they already pay for a pint of cheap beer. Crazy thought, I know, but a boy can dream.
Tags: coffee, coffee buyers, direct trade, intelligentsia, stumptown
September 12th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I really hope that this will open some eyes too. It’s too easy to call the prices outrageous and leave out everything good that is being done, so it was great to see an article showing appreciation of great coffees and what it takes to get a great cup.
p.s. - digging the new layout
September 13th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Sure, I’ll pay that much for coffee if you put booze in it.