118. 2011: The Year of the GCQRI
As 2010 ends and the New Year gets underway, I will resist the temptation to summarize the year in coffee or make bold predictions about what will happen in 2011. With prices at record highs and...
View Article154. CRS (and friends) at SCAA 2011
Tomorrow I travel to Houston for the annual gathering of the SCAA. CRS has participated in some capacity in every SCAA since 2004, but this year is special. It marks our first time participating in...
View Article155. Symposium hunger commentary
I had the enormous privilege last week of providing some brief commentary at the SCAA‘s annual Symposium following the world premiere of the After the Harvest documentary, which focuses on the issue of...
View Article156. General reflections on Symposium
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I participated this year for the first time in the SCAA’s annual Symposium. I realized what a coffee geek I am when I felt mildly star-struck by my contact with...
View Article158. After the Harvest
The issue of seasonal hunger in the coffeelands is one that I have been addressing on this blog dating back to my first posts in late 2009, generating little apparent interest. Last week at SCAA,...
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159. SCAA highlights – The Pop-Up Café
Counter Culture Coffee may have scored the show’s biggest hit with its brilliant Pop-Up Café, a full-on mobile coffee shop the crew erected outside the Expo. While everyone else serving coffee was...
View Article160. Do development agencies know what they are doing?
There was some engaging plenary discussion on sustainability at last week’s Symposium. During one session, the facilitator broke us into small discussion groups to revisit some of the critical...
View Article162. Starting with small steps to address hunger
The premiere of the After the Harvest documentary at last week’s Symposium was followed by a breakout session joined by everyone interested in further exploring the issue. The participants — more than...
View Article340. Pathological collaboration in a time of rust
During last year’s SCAA Symposium, Liam Brody of Root Capital urged participants to be “pathologically collaborative” in addressing the ills that continue to ail specialty coffee. Peter Giuliano...
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