Daniel of Arabica

Brewed elsewhere for November 7th

Ground Rules – Asia’s Best Coffee

• The Wall Street Journal talks coffee in Asia. Seemingly well researched – at least from a socio-economic-historical perspective – but I don’t think I would call Sumatra an obscure coffee growing region. Taiwan (I had no idea), Cuba? Sure, they’d qualify as relatively obscure in my book. Not Sumatra. Via theshot.coffeeratings.com

Illy brands itself through independent U.S. cafés

• The Shot cuts through the cruft of those absurd Illy/Starbucks rumors: “Anytime someone tries to sell coffee in this country, the knee-jerk media presumption is that they’re going to ‘Take On Starbucks’™”.

Espresso Twists in Naples, Italy

• And you thought the “house of mermaid” invented the frou-frou espresso beverage.

Penned by Daniel, in Links on 7 November 2009 tagged absurdity, Asia, business, Coffee, culture, danielofarabica, espresso, Europe, expansion, Illy, Italy, rumors, travel with no comments