Farm Gate to Table - Stephen Hurst, Mercanta Coffee

01/19/22 • 47 min

This week, we welcome Stephen Hurst, founder of Mercanta, a UK-based company supplying roasters the world over with the highest quality specialty green coffee beans. Join us as Stephen talks to us about fair business practices, climate change, improving farming practices, and COVID, and how these issues are impacting the coffee industry today.
Links:
Mercanta - Ethically sourced green coffee distributed globally since 1996
London School of Coffee - Founded to help make good coffee great
Cup of Excellence - The premier coffee competition
Specialty Coffee Association (sca.coffee)Music
Sarah Vaughan, "Black Coffee" ℗ Originally Released 1949. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1955-04-12
Composer, Lyricist: Paul Francis Webster
Composer, Lyricist: Sonny Burke
Jazzinuf, "Coffee and Cigarettes" Released June 26, 2020
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Little Cat Coffee and Animal Haven with Shannon Kirkman and Andrew Richter

Coffee and pets. These are arguably two of the most important and influential elements that helped us through the pandemic. This week, Shannon Kirkman from Animal Haven Shelter and Andrew Richter from Gotham Coffee Roasters join us as we discuss animal adoption, expertly roasted coffee, and how your coffee habit can help an animal in need.

From now until January 6, 2022, Little Cat Coffee will donate $10 to Animal Haven for every bag of coffee purchased. You can get your fabulous beans here.

For more information on Animal Haven, please click here.

To see some of the adorable animals currently up for adoption, please check out Animal Haven's Instagram feed.

Did Little Cat Coffee pique your interest in coffee and leave you yearning for more? Check out Gotham Coffee Roasters for some more next level coffee, and be sure to drop by their store front at 23 West 19th St in New York City and say hi.

Care to join the discussion about cat stereotypes? We invite you to read the saga of Jorts the cat (possibly one of the best cat names we've encountered in a while) right here.

Music this week came from the album, Jingle Cats: Meowy Christmas, from Jingle Cats Records, 1993

"Ode to Joy," by Ludwig Von Beethoven

"Waltz of the flowers," by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Both performed by...erm..."cats."

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Trident Coffee Roasters - Trident City Roast

This week, we taste test Trident Coffee's signature city roast, "Trident," sourced from Brazil Carmo de Minas. Also this week, Dan tells an incomplete story about a Man In A Can, what cocks have to do with pubs, and Allaya questions the science of whether or not monkeys like Marvin Gaye.
Music this week:
"Give Me Coffee" by Flying Fish Sailors
Give Me Coffee ℗ 1994 Flying Fish Sailors Released on: 1994-06-01
Check out The Flying Fish Sailors website
"The Wellerman Sea Shanty," performed on traditional instruments by Algal the Bard
Algal the Bard on InstagramSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6AU6D...iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/alg...
Coffee from Trident Coffee RoastersYour purchase does good! See how here.Here's some more interesting reading about the significance of cocks and pubs: "Why So Many Bars Are Named After Cocks" By Kathleen Crowther for Gastro Obscura