Being ‘mum’ is a state of mind. Maybe your ‘mum’ is actually your grandma, or aunty. Maybe they’re that friend that always books the restaurant, checks you’ve got home safe afterwards and never forgets to get you a birthday card. Whoever they are, whatever qualities they have, why not take the opportunity to show a […]
“Head of Coffee” might sound like a grand title for someone sitting around sipping espresso all day… and that’s not entirely inaccurate! But a lot of what Will Corby has to do involves long-haul flights, bumpy rides in local buses and nights spent in… less than 5* accomodation, shall we say. Makes a change from […]
This year, the International Women’s Day theme is #BalanceForBetter – and they can explain best what that means: “Balance is not a women’s issue, it’s a business issue. The race is on for the gender-balanced boardroom, a gender-balanced government, gender-balanced media coverage, a gender-balance of employees, more gender-balance in wealth, gender-balanced sports coverage … Gender […]
You might be hankering for a KitKat by 11am, after dealing with a particularly problematic Excel spreadsheet… but believe us when we tell you that coffee farming is the real definition of hungry work. Manually stripping coffee cherries from trees under the baking sun, shifting sacks of them around the farm, raking drying beans over […]
Now and then, we find an incredibly special coffee. And since our Head of Coffee is so good at hunting them down, we decided they all needed their own category! Introducing Gold Standard – coffees that are game-changers, taste-makers or just simply delicious. The Nyiramasoni Donatille is the perfect first example with cuttingly clear blackcurrant […]