David Mitchell interviews Big City Coffee CEO, Stephan Iscoe

My interest in the coffee business goes back to the early 1980’s. A friend was a distributor of organic foods and had just signed a deal to distribute Cafe Altura – a shade-grown organic coffee from Chiapas, Mexico. He came by my house with a batch of fresh-roasted beans and a little electric grinder. Five minutes later I was sipping the best coffee I’d ever had. Up to then, I was a tea drinker…

read the whole Saving Advice interview: Big City Coffee Stephan Iscoe Interview on Entrepreneurship

Tim Leary and Richard Alpert’s former employer, Harvard University, moves from psychedelics to caffeine.

Through a process called particle engineering, Harvard professor David Edwards and a student team have developed a new way for coffee drinkers to get their fix: inhalation.

Yes! Coffee you just inhale.

According to Edward’s company, Le Whif, the breathable coffee powder delivers the jolt of caffeine without the cup.

And – you’ll love this – Le Whif also makes inhalable chocolates….perfect accompaniment to a line of caffeine.

Thanks to Earth911 for alerting me to this green initiative (no cup waste!)

After a tour of several farms in Boquete, Japanese businessmen acquired 600 quintals of coffee.
Laestrella.com.pa reports: “The representatives of the Japanese stores and roasters that visited the Boquete area for three days, expressed their admiration for the dedication and care with which the Panamanians cultivate and process the coffee. After visiting the plantations and greenhouses, they saw the various ways of drying, depulping and keeping the level of freshness in the grain, at the following farms: Casa Ruiz, Finca Beneficio, Finca Peterson, all producers of Keisha Coffee, which won various international prizes, in addition to the Callejon Seco Farm.”
[read original post from laestrella.com.pa in Spanish]

I’m just now winding down after full day at the new roasting facility & had fun inventing new organic gourmet blends: get more info on availablility – subscribe to our RSS feed or join our newsletter!