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.
Iced Americanos are so popular in Korea that they’ve coined their own proverb: “Even if I freeze to death, iced Americano!” Plus, Kentucky is the focus of the US Department of Labor’s efforts to recover back wages for baristas, and coffee might lower your blood pressure. Or it might not. Hard to say.
Read the whole Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
I’ll be back with another full-length piece this Friday, but until then it’s goodbye from this week’s guest star Jun, who doesn’t seem to be happy with the Michigan weather:
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)
