Angie’s first encounter with specialty coffee happened in Paris, during an Erasmus year spent searching for something that...

Felipe Bunemer Nojiri grew up in São Paulo, a city whose entire modern history is tangled up with...

Jaideep Sidhu found coffee the way a lot of good things happen: sideways, through an unexpected conversation. A...

Jon Townsend wanted to be a journalist. He ended up delivering papers at 6 am for five years...

Alyson was offered a cup of espresso at her job interview at Cøffe in Düsseldorf. She had no...

Ana Rubio Ramírez, a proud extremeña, did not fall into coffee through a barista shift or a competition...

Harun Aslan’s first taste of coffee was an Americano that made him pull a face and wonder why...

Ivette Vera Loor entered her first coffee competition before she really knew how to make coffee. She was...

Thomson Khogres spent years watching someone else pour latte art before anyone ever showed him how. At 14,...

Jerry Kaandorp grew up scooping Douwe Egberts into a Moccamaster, the way most Dutch households did in the...