Ten years later, in 1991, as coffee director of Taylors of Harrogate, I was the first person to import kopi luwak into the west – a single kilogramme.
"The big open issue in Delaware law is the conflict between the authority of the board and the authority of the shareholders to amend the bylaws," said John C. Coffee, director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School.
As Albee sat drinking his coffee, Anthony Page, the director, approached him with a list of questions.
The term was popularized by Geoff Watts, director of coffee and green coffee buyer for Intelligentsia.
But if they had not enjoyed Imcine's help when starting out, they would have been shooting TV commercials or fetching coffee for Hollywood directors instead of making their first pictures.
"It's like orange squash and orange juice, they're both called orange but that's pretty much where the similarities end," says Paul Meikle-Janney, managing director of coffee consultancy, Coffee Community.
Giuliano, formerly the director of coffee at Counter Culture, once recounted asking himself, "Are we rewarding this coffee because it's excellent, or are we rewarding it because it's weird?" In the end, he concluded that "it's justly celebrated".
He oversaw negotiations with Tate & Lyle and was the lone strategist, morale booster, social worker, coffee buyer and communications director.
"We have a special obligation to the decaf drinker," said Peter Giuliano, director of coffee and an owner of Counter Culture Coffee, based in Durham, N.C.
One morning, I had coffee with a theatre director in his late seventies, who had known Havel since he was a young man.
Nichols was so poor that he took to eating the leftovers from the coffee shop where the director Paul Sills was then a waiter.
