sourcing
Chefs in Shanghai Say It's Still the Wild, Wild East
Despite the flies and the smells, it’s difficult to walk into a market in Shanghai and leave empty-handed. A handful of chefs even consider the chicken and pork to be vastly superior to that in the States—but sourcing ingredients for a Western...
Chasing Coffee in Ethiopia: Hyenas Give the Best Goodbyes
At the end of our coffee-sourcing trip in Ethiopia, we drove through the capitol city that had transformed into a sea of saddened World Cup fans. Ethiopia had just lost to Nigeria. Luckily, before our flight home we were introduced to a pack of wild...
Chasing Coffee in Ethiopia: Part One
I work at Sightglass, an independent coffee company in San Francisco. We take dozens of sourcing trips around the world to places where there's a variety of obstacles: political and health issues, to dangerous terrain.
Want to Help Study Hurricanes? Stick a Jar Out Your Window
Stable isotopes in the water could help answer questions about how water is being moved around inside this giant storm system.
