I meet a lot of people working in coffee who express frustration with how far consumers lag behind coffee professionals in their understanding and appreciation of good coffee. It seems to be a common barista lament.
I don’t believe this frustration is well founded or fair, for a number of reasons. For starters, I […]
Yesterday I grabbed the very last of the $5 early copies of the hulking San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney’s epic one-time broadsheet newspaper, from their Valencia Street headquarters. The paper was a five month labor of love of a team of great writers, artists, graphic designers, and investigative journalists to demonstrate what might be done […]
This tweet today from Jeremy Tooker of Four Barrel, who is currently traveling in Kenya, explains their no-free-refill policy quite nicely.
Tags: coffee, coffee farmers, fourbarrel, refill policy
This past Sunday I conducted a culinary experiment which provoked strong reactions on a couple of forums, and I feel I should write it up here as not a great deal of info about this exists online. Amanita muscaria, the familiar, iconic bright red fly agaric mushroom, is classified as “poisonous” in most field […]
Tonx is a coffee professional following a migratory path along the West Coast. He believes in coffees that are awesome, approachable and honest. He wishes such coffees were easier to find.
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