Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with Bonlife Coffee
Today, I’m having a conversation with Jeremy Moore, the founder of Bonlife Coffee, who recently launched a Kickstarter to fund a coffee-fueled cross country road trip. Jeremy, feel free to pull up a chair. Before we get started, can you briefly tell us a little bit about yourself and the people involved in Bonlife Coffee? I’m...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with “Life’s a Grind”
When I was a kid, my favorite part of the newspaper was the comics. Now that I’m an adult—well, it’s still the comics. But, like Dr. Egon Spengler once said, “Print is dead,” and everything is going digital—books, magazines, periodicals, journals, newspapers, even the Sunday funnies! This transition, though, has given rise to the webcomic....
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with the Editors of Sprudge
If you’re a coffee lover and/or a social media savant, odds are, you follow Sprudge religiously. Sprudge is, after all, the single most comprehensive database of coffee news and general awesomeness on the Internet. It’s updated daily with posts about coffee, news, coffee events, videos, lists, infographics—you name it. It’s the veritable cat’s pajamas of...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with Greg Cohen, Creator of the Coffee Guru App
I got an email, about a month ago, from Greg Cohen (otherwise known as @coffeeguruapp) letting me know that he was going to be in my neighborhood during the week of the Fourth of July; asked me if I wanted to meet up for a cup of coffee. Who am I to turn down any...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with SnobCoffery
There are quite a few coffee blogs out there, but there are only a few that I really like. Even fewer are the coffee blogs that I read on a very regular basis—Daily Shot of Coffee for sure, The Coffee Adventures and FRSHGRND most certainly. Not so long ago I stumbled across another coffee blog...
Friday Feature: a Roaster by Any Other Name
What was it that the Bard, Bill Shakespeare, once wrote? “A roaster by any other name is still a roaster”? I know it goes something like that, anyway. Contrarily, Hubert H. Humphrey retorted, “In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with New Gotham Coffee Community
You hear it and see it both ways: coffee is competitive, cut-throat, snobby, exclusive, and egocentric; or coffee is collaborative, bond-forming, friendly, and inspirational. In my years in the coffee industry I’ve certainly encountered both types of coffee people—sometimes even inside the same shop! Here in Chicago, one group has recently emerged to wave the...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with Michael McSherry, of Grinderman Coffee
May is National Bike Month! To celebrate, A Table in the Corner of the Cafe is featuring a spattering of bicycle-related posts throughout the month. Chicago, where I’m from, has a very dense population of bicyclists and bicycle enthusiasts and this populace even spills over into the coffee community. With the likes of most of...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with Michael Salvatore, of Heritage Bicycles General Store
Last week, A Table in the Corner of the Cafe, along with five other bloggers from the Chicago Blogger Network, was invited to cover the 2012 TimeOut Chicago Eat Out Awards. I was thrilled to accept this exclusive invitation, but I was also hesitant. I’m not a restaurateur after all – I’m not even a...
Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with Samantha Albert and Corey Kingston -Authors of “Takk Explorations of Nordic Cafe Culture”
Coffee is all about community. It’s about communication. It’s about conversation. It’s about discovering and experiencing. Nobody knows this better than the Swedes, the Danish, the Norwegians, the Finnish, the Icelandic – at least that’s the argument made by two young ladies who are in the beginning stages of a great adventure; traveling through the...
