Thanks to some buzz generated by a few controversial posts this blog, which started out as a way to keep friends and family in the U.S. appraised of our lives in Mexico, has recently morphed into a coffee blog. Curmudgeonly as I may be, I don't have any desire to make CC into just a place for coffee rants, so it's going to return to being a place for a more eclectic range of posts and its original role as a way to keep friends and family posted on our lives.
Many thanks to those professionally involved with coffee who've added themselves as followers and/or contributed comments over the past few months. I realized in retrospect that one reason some of my posts attracted such strong feedback was that we simply have no venue for critical, independent writing on specialty coffee. People are so used to infomercial style writing in the trade journals and fawning, uniformed praise in Saveuer or The New York Times that critical comments from an insider come as more of a shock than they ought to at this mature stage of the specialty coffee trade. We don't have any coffee equivalents to Robert Parkers or Anthony Bourdain - but we sure could use them.
I'll look for other opportunities to share my thoughts on the industry from time to time.
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I hope you find that venue. Your points of view (especially as expressed in your May entry) have value and weight. We could all use to see alternating opinions, especially when expressed by knowledgeable folks. There are many opinions out there, like coffee they have many different flavors. Find value in each!
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PS besides you know a LOT more about all this than I do!
Kevin, I appreciate your sentiment and think you're bang on with the complete lack of real discourse on the direction of Specialty Coffee. Congratulations on the move and I look forward to reading your opinions in the future.
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