Posted in Blends, New Coffee, road coffee, tagged starbucks, Pike Place Blend, wall street journal on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I was catching up on my pile of this week’s Wall Street Journal today, and saw an article about customer reception to Starbuck’s new Pike Place Blend. I’d include a link to the online version, but it’s subscriber-only. Suffice it to say that many regular SBUX customers are unhappy with the new brew, [...]
Posted in Blends, road coffee, tagged seattle, starbucks, Pike Place Blend, starbucks logo on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This week I spent a couple days in Seattle, a place where there are probably more coffee shops per capita than anywhere else in the world, including Finland. And some of them are, in fact, very VERY good.
Starbucks is not usually one I would include in that category. But after reading about their “historic” new [...]
Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Trade Shows, rants, real food, road coffee, roasting, small business, travels, tagged cream sauce, local food, locavore, old city coffee, pasta, philadelphia, reading terminal market, real food, recipe on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And so it was in the City of Brotherly Love for me this week. I expected Philadelphia to be a coffee Mecca, given the large Italian influence on the place. Well, maybe not Mecca, exactly, that would be Seattle. But I expected a decent espresso. Turned out to be [...]
Posted in Loco for Locavores, road coffee, small business, travels, tagged Road trip, greenlife grocery, asheville, western north carolina, road coffee, chimney rock, bat cave on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This weekend I made a delivery to GreenLife Grocery in Asheville (note to western Carolinians - you can now buy our coffee at Greenlife!!). I could have done a backhaul with Appalachian Harvest, but I wanted to see Greenlife first hand, and figured I could accomplish a few things on the trip (like some [...]
