The San Francisco Fancy Food Show
Taken from the terrace outside Yerba Buena Gardens Samovar Location
Day 1: The Arrival
The Posh Portage team spent this past weekend at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. This event is made up of exactly what you would expect: food, drink, more food, and anything that has to do with food. We arrived in San Francisco in the early morning on Saturday, January 15, one day before the event began. We used the day on Saturday to scope out some specialty coffee roasters in the area (which I will address in my next post) and to get acquainted with our surroundings in the city. After 11.5 miles of walking we had accomplished our mission: we stopped by two specialty retail coffee roasters, ate at a sandwhich shop with a line around the block, walked through 5 sections of the city, and had an incredible desert. Since we were staying at the Westin St. Francis in Union Square, we thought that would be a good place to start. We headed toward the direction of the convention center (where the Fancy Food Show event was being held) passing through SoMa (South of Mission), Mission district, Castro, and headed back to our hotel. We ended our day in the Castro area after we figured we wouldn’t make it walking to Golden Gate park to see the Bison before sun down. We walked back toward Market, caught a taxi, headed to our hotel to rest our feet a little, and ended the night with a walk through Chinatown. (more…)
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The Allston v. Cambridge Coffee Experience
The Allston v. Cambridge Coffee Experience
I spent this past weekend in Boston, Massachusetts. I thought I would check out the coffee culture and ventured out to a few independent coffee shops in Allston and in Cambridge. I found the indie shops, especially in Allston, attract a hipster crowd. There are few (but major) differences between the two sections of town and their indie coffee shops, however, the consistencies are unique to the area.
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China’s Emerging Coffee Culture
A Bit of History
I spent this past summer in Shanghai, China building networks, learning about the culture, and interacting with the people. Traditionally, China is a tea-drinking nation and has been for thousands of years. China, popularly known for operating as a communist government, has spent the past three decades opening its borders and introducing its citizens to the western world. Western economies continued to evolve and expand business to foreign countries which enabled China to see the benefits of having an open trade economic system. Westerners took advantage of great opportunity abroad and China wanted a piece of what the rest of the world had to offer.
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McDonald’s Clever Bus Stop Coffee Advertising
McDonald’s builds a steam powered advertisement to sell people hot coffee at a freezing bus stop. Too bad their coffee isn’t as good as the advertising.
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A Self Stirring Coffee Mug
There is no stir stick needed with this coffee mug. The self stirring coffee mug by Think Geek is powered by two AAA batteries at the base of the mug. At the push of a button a small motor at the base spins a small wheel, mixing your coffee.
The coffee mug comes with a stainless steel finish and a lock in lid that keeps your coffee hot. The mug is being advertised as a green solution to using disposable stirring utensils. To clean the mug you just pour in soapy warm water and press the button to stir.
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A Short Video on the History of Espresso
The discovery of coffee changed the face of the earth. Learn about the history of one of the most popular beverages in the world and the most traded commodity in the world behind oil.
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U.S. Is the King of Coffee
In a recent study, according to The National Coffee Association, 54% of American adults, roughly 150 million people, drink 3.3 cups of coffee every day. That works out to be almost half a million cups of coffee per day that are consumed in the United States. The United States buys the most coffee, Germany buys the second most amount. Sweden drinks the most coffee per person.
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