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.
This week, Starbucks’ corporate workers aren’t too happy with their employer’s union-busting. Meanwhile, coffee producers face increased fertilizer costs, more slightly hyperbolic musings on the future of coffee, and how to enhance your brain using coffee.
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