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Leaving to Never return: the story of Ciccio

5 April 2022

Francesco Anastasi, called by his friends ‘Ciccio’, was born in Messina and graduated, in 2014, at UNISG with a thesis on: “Swordfish fishing in the Strait of Messina: myth, sustainability, and future”. Ciccio was born in Italy and grew up to be passionate about the sea, yet one day he left for Colombia, driven by …

How many times do you have to fall before becoming a World Barista Champion?

5 April 2022

Diego Campos became the first World Barista Champion from Colombia in Milan, Italy in 2021. But let’s go back to the beginning of his story: when he was 18 years old, Diego moved from the small town El Espinal to Bogotà, where one of his oldest sisters was working for Amor Perfecto. Diego had no …

YANAYAKU: THE ROOTS OF COFFEE

5 April 2022

A six-foot tree full of red cherries, shimmering green leaves, and the earthy smell of wet soil. It is an incredible feeling to stand in front of a coffee plant for the first time. Pulling out a cherry, extracting the two beans covered in mucilage, realizing the slow process that will bring those seeds to …

First coffee tasting in Fiesole for the Board of Experts

8 March 2022

The Board of Experts of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition is a group made up of some of the top Italian and international Coffee Experts! This group of coffee connoisseurs met at La Marzocco Espresso Coffee Academy in Fiesole (Florence) to taste and evaluate varieties selected by Slow Food and grown by communities from Cuba, …

Discovering the Black Baza Coffee

8 March 2022 Arshiya Urveeja Bose

Black Baza Coffee was created with the purpose of empowering smallholder producers to grow coffee through biodiversity-friendly practices. The idea emerged as an outcome of Founder, Arshiya Bose’s doctoral research project. A human geographer, Arshiya completed her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, in the UK, on market incentives for conserving biodiversity – she used …

The story of Coffee in India

8 March 2022 Jestin Pauls

The story of the coffee in India began in 1670, thanks to a Sufi named Bada Budan who was responsible for bringing it to the country. Two hundred years after that, and with the intervention of British entrepreneurs, coffee was already becoming an important and commercial crop, planted in more than 40 estates, including the …

Slow Food Coffee Coalition board of experts meet to define future of the network

28 October 2021

Within the Slow Food Coffee Coalition exists an important and decisive advisory body, the Board of Experts: an active group of producers, roasters and professionals from all over the world whose aim is to co-create and guide the future of the network. Last month, these leading experts in the coffee sector met to pave the …

The Role Of The Contemporary Artisan In The Coffee Industry

7 September 2021 Erminia Nodari, Slow Food Coffee Coalition

A large part of the coffee industry has developed around customs that still define it today and that have greatly contributed to environmental degradation, to the devaluation of agriculture as food production and to the debasement of the human being in his agricultural role and in the role of consumer. In short, as it is …

Slow Food Coffee Coalition: new trends in the world of coffee

10 August 2021 Erminia Nodari, Slow Food Coffee Coalition

Trends often reflect changes in the taste of users as a consequence of social changes or evolutions dictated by economic contingencies and needs. They are also often the result of avant-garde movements, cultural movements or movements of opinion which sometimes extend to wider segments of the population. In the world of commercial coffee, the blends …

Who’s behind your cup of coffee? Traceability means identity

28 July 2021

Each cup of coffee is influenced by the identity of the coffee itself. When I started dealing with coffee, in the early nineties, I mainly thought about promoting espresso and cappuccino and to sell coffee for the mocha only as an expression of Italian culture. At that time I collaborated with a large roasting company …

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