An Urgent Matter
I published the post below on Substack via the Coffee Curmudgeon site there, but I wanted to include it here as well, as part of the permanent record, so to speak. Kerri Goodman, Editor and Publisher of Coffee Talk also…
The Coffee Curmudgeon Goes Live?
Hello Reader - After ten+ years the Coffee Curmudgeon is going live and will try not to hide in as much obscurity. From now on I plan to mention the Coffee Curmudgeon at least once a month (if only to…
Thinking in Waves About Coffee’s Third Wave (Tea & Coffee Asia, Dec’99/Jan’00)
I am not sure why I've waited until now to post this here ("The Coming Third Wave of Coffee Shops - Dec99/Feb00 - Tea & Coffee Asia"). The term Third Wave Coffee caught on in the 2000s, but I was…
Good Coffee vs Great Coffee
“Coffee drinkers in the U.S. don’t know how much work it is to produce our coffee — how much more work it takes to grow a great coffee, if they did they’d want to pay more for our coffee, they’d…
A: Possibly A Bottle, A Cork and A Label for Coffee Q: What is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a technology in search of work, or more work, and it will get it because it aids people in archiving and managing data. It does so while protecting that data and people seem to especially like that part.…
Who’s In Charge?
After my last post the world seems to have reversed in its orbit. This is what it’s like to live in a time when no one is in charge and everyone else is to blame (except the ones that are supposed…
Organically Flawed
In the sense of its first meaning (1509, according to Merriam-Webster), the word organic described something intrinsic to the whole of a thing, and not incidental. As someone who has traveled to certified organic coffee farms, I have known for…
Coffee Meme’s Rant Points to a Larger Problem
OK, alright, it had been a while since we spoke directly with COFFEE (see previous post), but we usually just have a cup of the stuff, so to speak, and get on with our day. So it was a little…