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.
This week, Colombia’s coffee industry isn’t happy with the new tax reform bill, with the FNC saying it will disproportionately affect small producers. Meanwhile, you will soon be able to throw your pod machine in the trash as a new, capsule-less (and allegedly greener) pretender comes to market: seaweed-covered coffee balls (they’re probably tastier than they sound).
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