For paid subscribers: A fascinating academic paper delves into the ways Korean Buddhists, after centuries of drinking tea, have started to embrace coffee.
Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.
Liberica, a newly rediscovered coffee species, could help the industry combat climate change. Meanwhile, Hawaiian officials mull releasing a tiny parasitic wasp to fight the coffee berry borer beetle, and workers at Intelligentsia in Chicago have ratified their first contract, a process that took less than two months.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
