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.
An investigation finds child labor on Rainforest Alliance-certified coffee farms in Mexico, former executives at Luckin Coffee are trying their luck (sorry) with a new venture, and more evidence that takeaway coffee cups leach microplastics.
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