https://dailycoffeenews.com/author/jenrobertsdcn/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:53:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/12/19/three-questions-with-dilshan-arty-ranaweera-of-cafe-secret-alley-in-sri-lanka/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:18:31 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=192828 When Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera opened Cafe Secret Alley in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 2017, he knew next to nothing about coffee. “Sri Lanka didn’t have a coffee culture,” Ranaweera said....]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/09/23/three-questions-with-paris-based-coffee-freelancer-mark-mckinney/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:51:08 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=190560   Mark McKinney’s unconventional professional journey in coffee has included biology textbooks in Paris and hazmat suits in Boston. Yet McKinney first entered coffee the same way thousands of career...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/07/09/three-questions-with-rod-johnson-of-blk-bold-specialty-beverages/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:22:43 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=188818   The concept of community has always been at the heart of BLK & Bold, the Des Moines, Iowa-based coffee roasting and beverage company founded by Pernell Cezar and Rod...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/06/23/sana-is-supporting-the-mental-health-of-women-coffee-farmers/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:10:46 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=189061   When Lucia Bawot published We Belong: An Anthology of Colombian Women Coffee Farmers in March 2023, she never imagined it would inspire her to launch SANA, an integrative psychosocial...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/06/17/three-questions-with-emmanuel-bushiazzo-of-la-claque-cafe/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:27:08 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=188828 In 2012, while completing his second postdoctoral fellowship in California researching coral conservation, Emmanuel Bushiazzo came across a library book about how to open a coffee shop for dummies. When...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/05/05/three-questions-with-sergio-hernandez-of-gratitude-specialty-coffee-in-la-paz-mexico/ Mon, 05 May 2025 16:06:04 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=187067 Not all coffee stories begin with a traveling circus, but that’s precisely how the married owners of Gratitude Specialty Coffee Roasters (Instagram) in La Paz, Mexico, first met. Gloria Olivera...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/03/12/three-questions-with-carolina-peralta-of-florencia-y-fortunata-in-cusco-peru/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=185714 When Carolina Peralta, the founder of Florencia y Fortunata Café in Cusco, Peru, celebrated good news or received a good grade in school as a child, it was always over...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/02/05/three-questions-with-coffee-expert-beamlak-bekele/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:12:34 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=185386 One of Beamlak Bekele’s earliest memories of her father is watching him cup coffee in a laboratory. Growing up in a coffee-centered family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bekele never imagined...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/01/02/three-questions-with-filmmaker-and-third-space-coffee-owner-brooke-bierhaus-sutton/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:30:35 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=184231 Opening a coffee shop might seem like an unlikely path for a documentary filmmaker, but for Brooke Bierhaus Sutton, the connection is clear.  Connection is at the core concept of...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/12/10/three-questions-with-swelter-coffee-roasters-founder-stephanie-welter-krause/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:35:48 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=183961 Stephanie Welter-Krause was first inspired to roast coffee while thumbing through the home roasting section in the influential 2012 book, The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee, written by James Freeman,...]]>