Barista Stories

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...

Italo Longato still remembers the exact cup. A small café in a tourist area of Lima, a coffee...

Kami Zicháčková’s path into specialty coffee was anything but planned. A hospitality job in Ireland for the language,...

Catherine Queiroz volunteered as a timekeeper at the World Cup Tasters Championship in Brazil in 2018. Eight years...

Valeria´s first serious encounter with coffee happened in 2010 in Donetsk, Ukraine, where a barista would shout across...

In 2012, a teenager in a Slovak dormitory was watching latte art videos on YouTube and deciding, more...

Tereza’s first memory of coffee is a teaspoon of sweet black coffee, slipped to her secretly by her...

Some people fall into coffee. Patrik Sláma fell into it, climbed out, looked around, and then built his...

Fátima Félix dos Santos came to coffee the long way around. Before she ever pulled a shot or...