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For the eleven folks who still peek at this dormant blog, wondering if I’ll return from my self-imposed blogging exile, the answer is (as always): “maybe”.
Last weekend I attempted with mixed success to liveblog the Western Regional Barista Competition in Los Angeles. I imagined a blog filled with some short, irreverent videos (like the […]

Congrats to M’lissa and Chris at Ritual who are making it official and announcing their engagement.

love is awesome.
Tags:  baristas, coffee, love

At 11:39am this morning I had the following strange SMS conversation with my favorite coffee-gear guru, Terry Z of espressoparts:

me: “have you ever put green coffee in the laser etcher?”
TerryZ: “no….. never. should we try it?”
me: “of course you should try it!!!”
TerryZ: “just a hole or do you want […]

My good buddy Kyle just contributed this nifty report to the folks at BBTV. A peek into Fazenda Ipanema in Brasil - a large, lavish and highly technified farm producing some outstanding coffee. Its a big contrast to the smaller scale coffee production that I’ve witnessed and a reminder that coffee farms come […]

There is a lot to process and a lot to say about the experience at Slow Food Nation. For now I just want to say that it felt like it was a tremendous success and thank everyone deeply for their hard work and the love they poured into it.

The coffees were amazing, […]

In addition to the unprecedentedly massive Coffee Pavilion at Fort Mason this weekend (and sorry to say all Taste Hall tickets have now sold out!), there are some other coffee related activities going on during Slow Food Nation. Worth noting are the Blue Bottle cart at Slow on the Go in front of City […]

Being in San Francisco for Slow Food Nation means I get to catch the inaugural week at Four Barrel, Jeremy Tooker’s stunningly beautiful coffeebar in the Mission. I made this timelapse of the scene yesterday.

Big congratulations to Jeremy and the crew.
Tags:  coffee coffeebar fourbarrel espresso sanfrancisco

The ambitious, massive and inaugural Slow Food Nation, being billed as the largest celebration of food in history, is taking place in San Francisco starting on August 29th. Coffee is getting a place at the table.
Over Labor Day weekend, SF’s Fort Mason will be the site of the 50,000sq ft Taste Pavilion, presenting a […]

I finished posting photos from my amazing April trip to Guatemala where I met facilitators and producers from a project working on quality improvement for small coffee farmers in Huehuetenango, funded by Slow Food.

Starbucks buying Clover is becoming a publicity boon to “third wave” coffee. Nearly all of the many […]

Yesterday, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz took the stage at their annual meeting announcing five new initiatives and -aping an Apple stevenote- a surprise “one more thing”… Starbucks has purchased Seattle’s Coffee Equipment Company, maker of the Clover. While the event (broadcast live on SBUX website) lacked the polish of Apple, you have to credit […]