Screenshot from the Cocoa Accountability Map. Click here for the interactive version. The environmental protection nonprofit Mighty Earth has launched a first-of-its-kind interactive map showing land use and forest loss in Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s largest producer… Source link
From the Sweet Maria’s video “Achieving a Light Roast With Your Behmor Coffee Roaster” The team at home roasting equipment and green coffee seller Sweet Maria’s has released a new YouTube video intended to help owners of one of the most popular home roasting… Source link
Menstrual and sexual health products at the Full Stop Shop cafe in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo courtesy of Sarah Hewett-Ball. What would you define as a necessity for patrons of a coffee shop? Lids for to-go cups? Yes. Napkins? Of course. Toilet paper in the bathroom?… Source link
(Editor’s note: The following comes from an article that appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of Roast Magazine. Click here to read the full article. Photos courtesy of The Partnership for Gender Equity.) “Equity” has spurred national and international… Source link
Dutch green coffee trader Trabocca has gotten into the movie business, releasing its first documentary film effort, which outlines the genesis of Guji-grown coffee in Ethiopia as we know it today, according to the company. Here’s more straight from Trabocca and its… Source link
The January/February 2020 issue of Roast has been released, featuring in-depth articles on quality variations in coffee from production to preparation, gender equity in the coffee value chain, green grading for physical defects, the impacts of the recent fires in the… Source link
[This is the fourth installment in a series on the basics of coffee brewer components. For more info, read Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: Water Systems and Part 3: Dispensing Systems. It is written by Hylan Joseph and David Ball of the Coffee Technicians Guild.] The key… Source link
The Petra Roasting Co. Maslak, Istanbul, location. Photo by Emre Dorter/Geo_ID Inside the Giz2000 Plaza in the Maslak business district on the far north side of Istanbul, Turkey, is the sixth retail location of the quality-focused Turkish roasting company Petra Roasting… Source link
Retail coffee shop interior design throughout the past decade can reasonably be divided into three primary aesthetic realms. There are those shops that essentially starve the senses in anticipation of a rainbow to be delivered to the palate through specialty coffee and… Source link
Unpacking Coffee hosts Ray and Kandace on the set. It was another fine year from the creative wizards behind Unpacking Coffee, the series that highlights the latest goings on with some of the world’s most progressive and design-forward roasting brands. As we weeded… Source link