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.
My first Coffee News Year in Review for Fresh Cup Magazine is a big one, featuring an ascendant labor movement, the entanglement of the coffee industry with global geopolitics, and a whole bunch of pretty explicit coffeewashing.
Of course the most important question—was coffee good for you in 2022?—is also addressed.
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. (he/him)
