Ever wonder where that weird new featured flavor in a bag of chips come from? A recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek profiled Kevan Vetter, the executive chef from McCormick & Co. Every year since 2000, Vetter has published his Flavor Forecast which has accurately predicted culinary popularity increases for chipotle and small plate meals, just [...]
September 2010
Last week, we took a look at what made Latin America’s coffee unique from the rest of the world. We learned that their beans are grown in very high altitudes and a majority of them go through wet processing which gives them an acidic taste. We also learned that a majority of the world’s coffee [...]
Dear Joe, I want to celebrate the holidays with decorations, but I don’t want to scare off customers who celebrate different holidays. How do I stay politically correct? – Greg Greg, Decorating your café to celebrate the season is an important way to show your customers that you are a small business. The most important [...]
Stockton Graham & Co. will be at Swift Creek Coffee House in Garner, NC on Thursday, October 14th at 7:00 PM. We’ll start the event with a history of coffee and move into cupping the various single-origin varietals that make up Swift Creek’s famous house blend lead by SGC Roastmaster and Green Coffee Buyer Brandon [...]
Inman Perk in Gainesville, GA has announced they are hosting their first Latte Art Throwdown, a competition for coffee shop employees. The Throwdown will be held Friday, October 8th at 7:30 and is open to the public. The event allows area café professionals to compete head-to-head to see who can create the best latte art. [...]
Despite graduating from East Carolina University four short months ago, Reid and myself recently found ourselves in the classroom setting once again, only this time, not as Pirates of ECU, but as students of Stockton Graham & Co.’s Coffee College. With so much to learn about in the world of coffee, we started class with [...]
