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Outside the new Cafetano coffee shop and roastery in Pittsburgh. All images courtesy of Cafetano. Honduras-based specialty coffee company Cafetano opened its first retail location in the United States last weekend, completing a farm-to-cup connection in Pittsburgh. Cafetano Owner Mirko Cuculiza brought the brand to the Steel City in partnership with Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur Carl Allison.
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The Global Coffee Platform (GCP) has released the new Coffee Sustainability Reference Code, a major reference resource designed to support coffee-sector-wide sustainability efforts. The Coffee Sustainability Reference Code represents the third major revision of the code originally known in 2004 as the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C). The 2021 Code offers a common
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The phrase “I know it when I see it” was not a colloquialism until 1964, when United Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously penned it to describe the threshold for what constitutes hardcore pornography as opposed to free speech. As technical definitions go, the Stewart threshold is woefully insufficient, although it might reasonably be applied
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Field images showing a new species called Coffea darainensis. Citation: Davis, A.P., Rakotonasolo, F. Six new species of coffee (Coffea) from northern Madagascar. Kew Bull (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09952-5 Six new coffee species (Coffea) have been formally introduced to the world of science, bringing the global total of recognized coffee species to 130. While not likely to
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