coffee culture
What your coffee says about you.
One of my favourite things to see when out and about, is when dogs look like their owners, and owners look like their dogs. A crossfit enthusiast with biceps and triceps bulging out of their muscle tees walking an American Staffy. A prim, proper, yet perpetually alarmed lady with a sphere of curls walking a […]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRESH COFFEE
How did I get here? I thought. I was bereft, dumbstruck, barefoot and paralysed in the kitchen. The kettle had boiled, for what? I had no coffee. I am a barista, I write about coffee, I work for a coffee roastery, I live round the corner from another, yet I have no coffee. How did […]
FIKA: APRIL EDITION
You know as specialty coffee lovers, we are different. We are nuanced, we appreciate the details, the excellence, the craft of coffee. Coffee is more than a commodity. It’s a subculture. And as you’ll know after reading this article, being part of a subculture is a point of connection with all other subcultures, we are […]
COFFEE IN (SKATE) CULTURE
When I was nineteen I moved to Canberra for uni, and made the decision that I was going to be cool. I’d thought about being cool before this, but I was in high school, and it’s hard to change your identity to be cool when everyone already knows you aren’t. But as nobody knew me […]
COFFEE AND CULTURE: LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
My mum recommended me this book, saying she thought it was the best one her bookclub read all year. She needed to insert that caveat as to not offend me and the book I gave her for her birthday. Which I notice is creeping ever down in her book pile, its ears’ mockingly un-dogged. Lessons […]
COFFEE IN COFFEE IN CARS WITH COMEDIANS
I have a pet peeve in TV. Something that really irks me when I see it. Sometimes it happens in movies but more often than not it’s a misdemeanor perpetrated by television series of the police, lawyer, and soap variety. It’s the imaginary sip of imaginary coffee. The mug is real, but that is where […]
FIKA FOR MY FAVOURITE SEASON
I know not all of us are summer people, and I used to be one of those. But now I’m not not a summer person, January is my favourite. Yes it’s hot and sticky and blah blah I don’t want to hear it because think of those loooong afternoons! There’s no errands to run, just […]
HOW NOT TO BE A COFFEE SNOB (WHEN YOU’RE A COFFEE SNOB)
I wouldn’t call myself a coffee snob. It’s not nice to call people coffee snobs so I extend that etiquette to myself, even though I am one. I don’t mean to be, it’s just that I like coffee. I love it, really. And I want each cup that I drink to be a celebration of […]
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