He was previously editor of The Spectator, where he founded the highly influential Coffee House blog and steered the magazine to record circulation.
Coffee from Finca Kilimanjaro, one of her farms, impressed the panel of judges, which included Geoff Watts, of Intelligentsia Coffee, the influential Chicago-based roaster and café operator.
"Design is what matters to me," not décor or decoration, said the decorator, whose eclectic tastes (Napoleon III chairs paired with Martin Szekely woven steel consoles; Ron Arad chairs with side tables by the formidable French decorator Madeleine Castaing) have been influential enough that a coffee table book was inevitable.
Peter Giuliano, above, the director of coffee for the influential roaster Counter Culture Coffee, announced to his staff yesterday that he is leaving the company to become the director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America's Symposium, an annual ideas conference for the industry.
Part of your pitch is being ready to do "the ask" when you line up coffee meetings with influential people who can help you – they will not expect their time to be wasted with idle chit chat.
The influential group Black Feminists started with a coffee organised by Chitra Nagarajan and a few other activists.
Taliban Pub is where big house artists play, local and international … like Black Coffee, one of Africa's most influential DJs and producers, and house legend Alton Miller from the US.
Now the most influential cafés take pains to prove that humble drip coffee can be just as serious.
Wake up and smell the coffee - the French are the most powerful and the most influential and are having it away.
The track, entitled "Percumajor" is a remix of Cajmere's legendary dance hit "Coffee Pot: It's Time for the Percolator," which was incredibly influential on the Baltimore club sound.
