Fri, 18 Jan 2008
The Daily Grind VII
- San Francisco roaster John Weaver tells an amusing story to explain why he drinks it black.
- Conchitta Basse, a blind girl from the New Guinea island of Manam, graduated 8th grade from Faniufa Sacred Heart school in 2005 and went to work as a coffee taster (a "cupper") at Monpi Coffee Exports.
- I suspect the "good cup of coffee" at Brunswick Community College's lifelong learning coffee forum will be the usual scorched and oily fare.
- Memo to Thailand: cut back on the coffee-break sweets.
- Cartoonist Dave Kellett has high praise for the Blue Butterfly Coffee Company in El Segundo, California. I imagine the store is named after the endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly, Euphilotes battoides allyni, whose three colonies are at the Los Angeles airport, the Chevron El Segundo oil refinery, a few square yards on a local beach. There's a hard-luck story.
- Nicaraguan coffee exports are way up. Here's an overview of Nicaragua's leading agricultural export from Kenneth Davids and a cupper-level look at it from coffee experts Sweet Maria's.
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