Coffee People

Editor Note: This coffee profile was published in December 2008. An update on Mike’s book The Sketchnote Handbook was added in December 2012. When Mike Rohde was 5 years old, he spilled hot coffee on himself at his grandmother’s house. It was an unlikely introduction to the beverage for the Wisconsin-based visual designer who created […]

Turning San Diego into a coffee capital, one roast at a time. “Roasting coffee is a culinary art,” says Arne Holt, owner of Caffé Calabria in North Park. With ten different blends sold to 150 grocery stores and cafes, Arne runs not only a wholesale roasting company but a popular cafe. Arne started out with […]

I thought I was a Frank Sinatra fan, but somehow this tune escaped me. Back in 1946, Frank Sinatra sang The Coffee Song. Bob Hilliard wrote the lyrics and Dick Miles did the music. The Coffee Song as performed by Frank Sinatra. Way down among Brazilians Coffee beans grow by the billions So they’ve got […]

Mike Crimmins was 7 years old when his father gave him coffee to treat a lingering asthma attack. Meds weren’t helping, Mike said, but coffee did the trick. It wasn’t until college, though, that coffee became a daily part of his life. It became an even bigger part of his life when he launched Daily […]

Nick Cho tirelessly advances the concept of coffee’s Third Wave. He chairs the United States Barista Championship, and he is the former owner of Murky Coffee in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Va. One of Cho’s training techniques illustrates how he moved beyond Starbucks and the Second Wave — former Murky barista Jacob Grier describes how […]

Terry Francona, apparently, is a Starbucks guy. Now in his sixth year managing the Boston Red Sox, Francona has managed the team that went 86 years without a World Series championship to two titles. Boston fans have mellowed a tiny bit since the title drought ended in 2004, but it’s still a potentially brutal place […]