Coffee Chronicles Standart

Standart Japanが毎週日曜日の朝にお届けしているコーヒーニュースレター「The Weekend Brew」。その第100号を記念して、Standart Japan編集長のToshi、制作担当のAtsushi、ニュースレター担当のTakayaの3人が、チーム編成の経緯や制作の裏側、2年間の思い出、これから挑戦したいことなどについてたっぷりお喋りしました。

Standart Japan: www.standartmag.jp
The Weekend Brew: www.standartmag.jp/blogs/the-weekend-brew
Edit by Harry https://twitter.com/haaagle28

内戦と人道的危機のさなかにあるイエメン。
コーヒーは世界進出のチャンスを掴んだこの地につかの間の平穏をもたらせるのでしょうか?

この音声記事は、イエメンのコーヒーや文化を称えるAmal Yemenというプロジェクトを応援するために作られました。元となる記事はStandart Japan第15号に掲載されています。

Amal Yemen：https://amalyemen.com
Standart Japan：https://www.standartmag.jp
Music by Sanrez：https://soundcloud.com/snarezmusic

It's a well-known trope that bartenders have half a novel under their belts, but the gentle art of cocktail-making can slake the creative propensities of many a germinating artist. Fyodor Kuzmichev certainly thinks so, and has seen fit to craft a delicately wrought description of his ventures into the endeavour, and subsequent Dantean exploration of the cocktail underworld.

Music:

"Band Documentary (The Introduction)" by Captive Portal is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
"Band Hiatus (The Reflection)" by Captive Portal is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
"Reunion Rumours (feat. The Completely Sober Band)" by Captive Portal is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
"Mermaid Butterfly" by Soft and Furious is licensed under CC0 1.0
"Fly" by Andre Jetson is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Talk to anyone in coffee about what drew them to, or kept them in, the coffee business, and they’ll all give you one big reason: the people.

The coffee world’s tight-knit global community of geeky, gregarious, and pleasure-minded people tends to create an infectious enthusiasm, and as specialty coffee has grown in popularity, it’s made a coffee lover’s world feel all the more welcoming.

So, in an industry full of magnetic personalities and creative minds who stimulate one another, why is it so hard to keep great people in coffee-serving jobs?

Written by Liz Clayton, a coffee writer and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Read by Sabine Parrish, staff writer at Standart.

The space of the coffee shop is suffused with social meaning. It has been a site for collaboration, discussion, community building, and leisure. A researcher at the University of Chicago takes us through the intellectual history of the coffee shop in Baghdad, and allows us to appreciate the rich history of coffee across geographical borders and expanses of time.

Written by Pelle Valentin Olsen, a PhD student at the University of Chicago that spends most of his time procrastinating in one of Chicago's many coffee shops and Read by Luke Adams, content director of Standart.

Recorded at The Bear & The Bean in Oxford, United Kingdom.

We talk about the global coffee industry and what ties it together, but doesn’t coffee also provide one of the clearest windows into local culture? When we’re travelling to a new city for the first time, what many of us seek out is a good coffee shop, and it often turns out that some of our most ‘authentic’ travel experiences start in the cup.

Story by Rachel Davies in Standart Magazine Issue 6. read by Sabine Parrish.