How many CoffeeCon events can we produce per year? Answer: Given our resources, that is two people, Pat and me, devoting ourselves to the cause pretty much full time, we’ve found can do three per year. Since we’ve so far completed two this year, it leaves one...
CoffeeCon comes to Brooklyn for one-day only this coming Saturday, June 4. If you’ve longed for a coffee festival on par with the best wine, beer or food events CoffeeCon is for you. As you know, coffee is truly a culinary food item which means a world of recipes and...
You know you’re really over the top infatuated with coffee when you find yourself squinting to see the coffee maker in a film. When Steven Rea contacted me to offer to bring his new book, Hollywood Café to CoffeeCon, I was really excited both to realize there was such...
CoffeeCon will make history with the first-ever Chemex Pop-up Museum on Saturday June 4, at Industry City in Brooklyn. It happens to be the Chemex coffeemaker’s 75th anniversary. The Chemex happens to be the 3rd Wave Coffee Movement’s darling coffee maker and...
Whew! I’m so happy to be able to announce this. In case you missed my last post, my wife and business partner Patricia, who’s been by my side for every CoffeeCon since the first in 2011, was seriously injured one week before the Chicago event at the location itself....
For someone who happens upon this site and column for the first time to read this, I am a writer about coffee who also created a consumer coffee festival. I say it both as a boast and a caution. I’m sure I’m unable to be neutral. That said, for as many years as I’ve...
