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…
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Coffee chaff, the dried silverskin from coffee beans that separates from the bean during the roasting process and tends to fly everywhere, is landing somewhere new: inside car parts that…
There’s a new resource for actors throughout the coffee world to explore information and resources towards developing climate resiliency and adaptation in the coffee sector. The Alliance for Resilient Coffee…
A former power plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been deftly revitalized under the Electric Depot name as a mixed-use residential, entertainment and retail center. Providing much of the buzz is…
All that glitters in Arizona is not necessarily gold. It may be copper, one of the historical “Five Cs” of the Grand Canyon State’s founding economy, alongside citrus, cotton, cattle…
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…
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…
The Specialty Coffee Association has announced that its 2021 World of Coffee show — Europe’s largest annual specialty coffee trade show — will be heading to Athens, Greece. The show…
For commercial coffee businesses on the lookout for new equipment, 2019 has truly been the Year of the Grinder. Whether or not any of the advanced new generation of bean…
(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Roast Magazine. Links have been added for context.) In 2009, childhood friends Beverly Magtanong and Jelynn Malone traveled to…