Michelle Foster, who is a regular contributor to Barista Magazine, was at the Big Central Regional Barista Competition this weekend in Kansas City. Besides writing about the event for the April/May issue of our magazine, […]
The Big Central is Big Time exciting! With two regionals for the price of one (South Central and North Central) the audience gathered at the event hosted by PT’s Coffee and Kaldi’s Coffee will get […]
On the heels of Barista Nation’s super successful European debut in Paris a few weeks ago, comes Barista Nation Texas ”yeehaw! Barista Nation founder and head-hot-mama Anastasia Chovan says that registration was buzzing as soon […]
It’s hard to believe that the industry’s most progressive coffee event ”Barista Nation ”is only in its second year. The non profit organization, which is the brainchild of industry vet Anastasia Chovan, has enjoyed successful […]
Barista Nation has been sweeping the globe as one of the most innovative coffee events happening right now. It’s a one-day event, free to any coffee professional and baristas of all levels, offering workshops and […]
Everyone and their grandmother likes Raul Rodas; he’s just one of those guys. Actually, he’s unique in how beloved he is in this coffee industry. But there’s no big secret reason for it ”he’s kind […]
The day is moving right along. Some snafus, as always — poor Raul, the Guatemala Champion, is still waiting to for his gear to arrive, so he won;’t compete until Day 2 (Wednesday) of the […]
I’m getting ready for a trip to Tokyo next week to join the Barista Nation team at the first ever Barista Nation Tokyo event! I almost said it was the first international Barista Nation, but […]
News broke this morning here in Oregon of the tsunami, which started yesterday after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook the ocean floor just off the coast of Japan. The waves reached our Pacific Coast, […]
Two of our favorite countries have been the focus of the last week and also this week: Five wonderful friends from Sweden came to Portland to spend three days exploring the coffee culture of our […]
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