Coffee Lit. Rev. Coffee Lit. Rev.
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A review of a recent scientific article published about or adjacent to coffee. Each episode features a guest professional who will help discuss the paper. Sometimes there will be other guests to discuss news, current events, and topical items.
Podcast by Christopher H. Hendon. Produced by Doran Pennington.
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Ep4. Green Coffee Certified Reference Material with Kyle Glanville
Chris and Doran are joined by Kyle Glanville to discuss, "Development of a coffee bean certified reference material (KRISS CRM 108-10-023) for elemental analysis", appearing in A**l. Bioanal. Chem., 2024, 416, 475.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-023-05051-5
About Kyle: Kyle is a founder of G&B and Go Get Em Tiger, a cafe brand based in Los Angeles. He is also the US Barista Champion of 2008 — "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain topped the charts that year.
Introduction preamble: Dorris Lessing -
Ep3. AI Flavor Notes with Jesse Han
Chris and Doran are joined by Jesse Han to discuss, "Prediction of specialty coffee flavors based on near-infrared spectra using machine‐ and deep-learning methods", appearing in J. Sci. Food Agric., 2021, 101, 4705.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.11116
About Jesse: He is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University studying Astronomy. He was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Fluid Dynamics in 2017 for showing that coffee will not spill out of a cup if you walk backwards while holding it.
Introduction preamble: Richard Feynman -
Ep2. Quaker Beans with Andrew Tolley
Chris and Doran are joined by Andrew Tolley to discuss, "Impacts of quaker beans over sensory characteristics and volatile composition of specialty natural coffees", appearing in Food Chem., 2021, 342, 128304.
The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128304
Introduction preamble: Edward Teller -
Ep1. Fines with Nicole Battefeld-Montgomery
Chris and Doran are joined by Nicole Battefeld-Montgomery to discuss, "The role of fines in espresso extraction dynamics", appearing in Sci. Rep., 2024, 14, 5612.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55831-x
Introduction preamble: Roald Hoffmann -
Welcome to Coffee Lit. Rev.
Welcome to Coffee Lit. Rev. This is a science podcast that seeks to unpack a recent scientific article related to coffee. Each week we will have guest hosts and do our best to communicate with both the scientific and coffee communities. Please consider following us on Instagram, X, and Patreon. There, our handle is coffeelitrev.
Sincerely,
Chris and Doran