Coffee – CHRISTOPHER SCOTT MCNEILL

Temple Coffee Roasters is under fire after stating that protective face masks violate the company’s dress code

April 19, 2020

Reddit user KarmaPurgePlus posted on the Sacramento subreddit April 16 that Temple Coffee Roasters sent an email to all staff indicating that wearing protective facial masks during the coronavirus pandemic violated the company’s dress code. Temple faced immediate backlash from

How the nation’s farm-to-fork capital is pushing the envelope on coffee

April 14, 2020

Sacramento didn’t become the face of the farm-to-fork movement by standing in opposition to something else. Instead, the city took the way it had been interacting with its surrounding 1.5 million acres of farmland for generations and put a name

Gratuity in the time of corona

April 13, 2020

I have this one regular customer who’s been on my mind today. Prior to the coronavirus, prior to the shelter-in-place order, he may or may not have left a tip when he came in to my coffee shop—I, honestly, have

Making better coffee: chapter 2

April 9, 2020

After procuring quality coffee, there is a bit of work involved in getting a great cup time and time again. There are a few variables at play that can make your life either easier or harder, and until maybe five

Making better coffee: chapter 1

January 31, 2020

If you make coffee at home, then there’s a pretty significant chance that you, dear friend, make bad coffee. But that, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing—bad coffee is better than no coffee, much in the

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