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Three for Sunday
The magic that is Twitter brought me three thought-provoking articles to read this just-passed Sunday morning and introduced me to one compelling blog to add to my RSS feeds.
For posts and articles we have one aiming at debunking the “seasonality myth”, another illuminating some recent but too easily forgotten coffee-growing history and another, from a general interest news source, addressing thoughts on fair-trade coffee that have been talked up and down in trade journals for some time now.
Thanks go to Nick Cho.
Brewed elsewhere
- Journalism and coffee – The first post on James Hoffman's new blog devoted to "decent length, well thought out articles about coffee". James Hoffman is the owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London, England.
- Distribution of Coffee flowchart – This is fascinating. Originally published in 1961 in "Coffee" by Frederick Wellman and now posted, for our pleasure, in the Flickr photostream of James Hoffman (of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London), this flow chart illustrates the historical-geographical movement of the practice of cultivating coffee. It starts, in Ethiopia, at around 575 A.D. and ends in Hawaii in 1893.
Brewed elsewhere
- Portion Size, Then Vs. Now – Waist sizes in the U.S. have increased right alongside portion sizes. Have you ever seen an old coffee cup? Maybe you’ve seen one at a garage sale and marveled at it’s diminutive size. Twenty years ago a “cup” of coffee was … well … a cup. 8oz. Makes sense. (via kottke)
- Back to the alley / At a Hayes Valley salon of artists and designers, architects show links between back alleys and an organic new urbanism – Architect David Winslow wants to turn the alley in front of Blue Bottle Coffee’s Hayes Valley kiosk in San Francisco into an inviting plaza. I say yes.
- Raw but Welcoming, a Space for Lofty Ideas – Architecture firm Sagan Piechota’s renovated office (and “salon” space as well, apparently) on Linden Lane. What about this has anything to do with coffee? Oakland’s very own Blue Bottle Coffee has their seminal foray into a proper café location – the Hayes Valley kiosk – right down below. Yeah, I want to work there too.
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