For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
The coffee scene in Dubai is thriving, and the city is set to welcome the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event next month. But underneath the glitzy facade and marketing buzz lies a moral quagmire.
In which the International Coffee Organization launches a living income study, Tim Hortons opens in Pakistan to popular acclaim, and some tech bros want to disrupt the coffee industry (as well as the wellness, vitamin and, er, medicine industries) using a spray doohickey.
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