“However it happened, anywhere between 20,000 and 130,000 people — estimates range wildly — are farming illegally within Bukit Barisan Selatan.”
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Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Travel
Home Is a Mug of Coffee
It takes a lot of percolating to become your own person.
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Nonfiction
Good Coffee Shouldn’t Have to Cost More Than $1
American’s infatuation with coffee, and the quest to see whether a delicious, $1 cup of joe is possible.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
A Simpler Cup of Coffee
From backlash to counter-backlash, coffee culture endures in all its glorious fussiness.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Returning to a Simpler Cup of Coffee
“Cheap coffee is one of America’s most unsung comfort foods.”
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Can We Sustain Our Coffee Habit?
[Dr. Stephen] Gliessman argues that these resilient coffee forests will be able to survive climate change. “It is the low elevation robusta variety of coffee and the coffee that is grown in large monoculture, full sun plantations (the bulk of the coffee traded on the open commodity market) that will not be resilient.” Single species […]
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Why So Many Bottled and Canned Coffee Drinks Taste So Bad
It took Blue Bottle a year and a half to get to the point where they could regularly produce iced coffee at this scale. The seed of the idea was a can of cold cappuccino that James Freeman had on a plane to New York in late 2011. “I got this canned cappucino for, like, […]